Â鶹ֱ²¥’s Desert Fireball Network team has celebrated the New Year in style by successfully recovering a recently fallen meteorite from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in outback South Australia.<\/p>\n
The 1.7 kilogram meteorite, retrieved on New Year\u2019s Eve, is the first recovered as the result of a new camera network comprising 32 remote camera observatories stationed across the Australian outback. The Western Australian and South Australian museums are both collaborators on the project.<\/p>\n
Team leader and planetary geologist, Professor Phil Bland, hand-dug the meteorite from a 42cm deep hole in a remote section of the lake bed just hours before the arrival of heavy rains that would have wiped away all trace of the fall site.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an amazing team effort – we got there by the skin of our teeth,\u201d Professor Bland said.<\/p>\n