Tutti a caccia di bolidi e meteoriti con PRISMA / Hunting meteors and meteorites with PRISMA

by Daniele Gardiol (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Friday 20 May 2022, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Rome

Google Meet

Welcome to the 4th appointment with “A TUTTO SPETTRO”, the monthly series of 1-hour web seminars dedicated to projects and topics in the field of Public Engagement of Science. 

Google Meet link: https://tinyurl.com/inaf-pe 

Abstract: 

PRISMA is the Italian fireball network dedicated to observation of bright meteors and recovery of freshly fallen meteorites. Since the very beginning of the project, we experienced an increasing enthusiastic participation of non-professionals, starting from amateur astronomers and reaching an ever wider audience among citizens and students. Nowadays PRISMA has become an established Italian stakeholder in the field of meteors and meteorites, being the reference for visual warnings, video recording of fireballs and report of suspect meteorite finds. I will describe our experience on this topic and the methodologies we have developed to capitalize such potential.