One of our researcher, Mr Oliver Moses was part of a team of scientists that recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) on June 23, 2018.
Other scientists were from Botswana
International University of Science and Technology, Botswana Geoscience
Institute, South Africa, Finland and USA. Mr Moses teamed up with Dr
Peter Jenniskens, a subject expert of the NASA-sponsored SETI Institute
in California, to gather security surveillance videos in Rakops and
Maun, to get better constraints on the position and altitude of the
fireball’s explosion.
The meteorite is one of the fragments of
asteroid 2018 LA which collided with Earth on June 2, 2018 and turned
into a meteor fireball that detonated over Botswana a few seconds after
entering the atmosphere. The incident was witnessed by a number of
spectators in Botswana and neighbouring countries and was captured on
numerous security cameras.
Read: https://www.ub.bw/about-ub/news/ub-researcher-part-asteroid-fragment-recovery-team
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