Commissioning and First Science Results of the Desert Fireball Network: a Global-Scale Automated Survey for Large Meteoroid Impacts

Devillepoix, Hadrien Arnaud Romain

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Open access

Authors

Devillepoix, Hadrien Arnaud Romain

Date

2018

Supervisor

Phil Bland

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Science and Engineering

School

School of Earth and Planetary Sciences

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76001

Collection

Curtin Theses

Abstract

This thesis explores the first results from the Desert Fireball Network, a distributed global observatory designed to characterise fireballs caused by meteoroid impacts. To deal with the >50 terabytes of data influx per week, innovative data reduction techniques have been developed. The science topics investigated in this work include airbursts caused by large meteoroids impacting the Earth's atmosphere, the recovery of a meteorite and its orbital history, and the structure of a meteor shower.