FireBallsinTheSky:在線隕石科技網(wǎng)是一個(gè)由澳大利亞科廷大學(xué)創(chuàng)辦的致力于外太空隕石的科技網(wǎng)站，分享太空中的隕石運(yùn)行軌跡，隕石攝影圖片，隕石研究等相關(guān)的科技數(shù)據(jù)資料。

該應(yīng)用程序使用的傳感器來(lái)獲取數(shù)據(jù)并使用智能手機(jī)來(lái)記錄所有細(xì)節(jié)，當(dāng)你仰望星空的時(shí)候突然發(fā)現(xiàn)有流星雨的時(shí)候，你可以使用這款手機(jī)應(yīng)用記錄下來(lái)，該應(yīng)用會(huì)自動(dòng)識(shí)別你所在的位置、高度以及流星的方位，用戶也可以添加當(dāng)時(shí)情景的亮度、色彩、速度等相關(guān)信息，把這些寶貴的資料提交給科廷科技大學(xué)的科學(xué)家和工程師們，幫助他們獲取有關(guān)于流星的寶貴資料。

當(dāng)然你的行動(dòng)是有回報(bào)的，通過(guò)該應(yīng)用程序你可以獲得最新的實(shí)地考察資料還有珍貴的圖片，這些圖片都是非常珍貴的高清圖像，都是通過(guò)高清攝影設(shè)備獲取的，有了這款手機(jī)應(yīng)用只要你拍攝到了流星的信息，它就可以跟蹤你的拍攝信息，該團(tuán)隊(duì)可以計(jì)算出它來(lái)自何處，并發(fā)送回信息給你。太空中的流星項(xiàng)目是一個(gè)所有人類的科學(xué)項(xiàng)目，讓公眾進(jìn)行合作并參與討論。

Meteorites are the oldest rocks in existence: the only surviving physical record of the formation and evolution of the solar system. They sample hundreds of different heavenly bodies. Potentially, meteorites offer a direct route to understanding our origins. But to decode that record we need to know where they come from. The Desert Fireball Network (or DFN for short) is designed to provide that data.

Meteorites generate a fireball as they come through the atmosphere – you may even have seen one of these yourself. The DFN is a network of digital cameras in the outback desert of Australia which capture photographs of the night sky. By making networked observations of the fireball we can triangulate its trajectory, track the rock forward to where it lands, and back, to where it came from in the solar system.

More and more cameras are being added to the DFN as the project expands. The final network will image the night sky over roughly one-third of Australia, and track whatever is coming through the atmosphere. DFN researchers will then go out and recover the meteorite. Knowing where the meteorite came from, and what it is made of, will help us to address some of the biggest questions in planetary science: how our planetary system came into being, and how dust and gas produced a planet capable of supporting life – our Earth.

Fireballs in the Sky is a citizen science initiative that will allow the public to share the discoveries of the Desert Fireball Network. By 2014 the website will deliver images from all our cameras, results, and blogs from the field, so that you can see a research project as it happens, provide your own data, and experience the highs (and the occasional lows) as we experience them. Watch this space!