MEO: Outreach
NASA All Sky Fireball Network | Shower Observations | Lunar Impact Monitoring
NASA All Sky Fireball Network
The NASA All sky Fireball Network is a network of cameras set up by the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) with the goal of observing meteors brighter than the planet Venus, which are called fireballs. The collected data will be used by the MEO in constructing models of the meteoroid environment, which are important to spacecraft designers.
This website displays fireball data observed by the network in the form of images, movies, diagrams, and text files.
The MEO has created material for educators, containing background information about meteors, a description of the network, and suggestions for classroom use of the data. This is available below as a workshop, along with accompanying datasets and video.
Workshop (47Mb PDF)
Datasets (Excel Spreadsheets):
The network currently consists of 15 cameras, 6 of which are placed in locations in north Alabama, north Georgia, southern Tennessee, and southern North Carolina. 4 are in the northern Ohio/Pennsylvania area, and the remaining 5 are located in southern New Mexico and Arizona. The network is still growing, despite having achieved its initial goal of 15 cameras in schools, science centers, planetaria, and observatories in the United States, predominantly east of the Mississippi River, where there are few such systems.
If you are a representative of a school, science center, or planetarium interested in hosting a fireball camera, and you meet the site criteria, please fill out this form.