Waspie_Dwarf Posted October 22, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Scientists discover satellites captured Chelyabinsk meteor debris trail A team of researchers with members from Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin and NOAA has found that several satellites orbiting the Earth at the time of the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion captured the debris trail on film. As the team explains in their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the captured images allowed for calculating the trajectory of the meteor and then its orbit.Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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