Bibcode
Zamorano, J.; Gallego, J.; Ocaña, F.; Sanchez de Miguel, A.; Izquierdo, J.; Manjavacas, E.; Ponce, R.; Garcia, L.; Saez, G.; Ramirez, P.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Madrid, September 13 - 17, 2010, Eds.: M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. Gorgas, J. Maíz Apellániz, J. R. Pardo, and A. Gil de Paz., p. 629-629
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2011
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Description
The Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM) has recently installed a
high sensitivity video system to detect meteors. It is intended to study
the entry in our atmosphere of interplanetary particles of mass greater
than a gram. The station, not fully equipped yet, is a node of the
national Spanish Fireball Network (SPMN) and includes cameras located at
the Astronomical Observatory (Physics building) and others distributed
around. The system has been automated to detect and record meteors only
when the atmospheric conditions are good enough. Undergraduate and
graduate physics students have collaborated to develop, install and test
the system. Detections which are bright enough to drop a meteorite are
analyzed using double station observations with the cameras of the SPMN
nodes around Spain to determine their atmospheric paths, origin and
landing area.