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The Global Fireball Observatory is an multi-institutional collaboration, with partner networks around the world. Our observatories take pictures of fireballs so we can recover any meteorites that might have landed on the ground.

Ever seen a shooting star? The Earth gets hit by thousands of tiny space particles every day. Most are so small we don't even see them. Meteors (or shooting stars) are what we do see when things the size of a grain of sand hit our atmosphere and burn up. The solar system is pretty dusty and full of old rocks floating around. Between Mars and Jupiter there is the asteroid belt - lots of small proto-planets. When they collide, big chunks can fly off and come to Earth. They can be so bright when they hit the a

Fireball networks allow researchers to try and answer some really cool questions: Why are there different types of meteorites? Where did they come from in the Solar System? Can we make a geological map of the inner Solar System? Can we study samples from a known asteroid, like a sample-return mission? Are there such things as cometary meteorites? How did rocky planets form? Where did all the water and organics came from on the terrestrial planets?

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