UAE BARQ برق الإمارات – نبضك
The UAE Astronomical Cameras Network (UACN) recorded a very bright meteor that appeared over UAE skies on Tuesday, March 5 at 7:40 pm, and 11 seconds UAE time. The network of cameras has been created by International Astronomy canter in different areas of the UAE, and managed by the center in cooperation with the US space agency NASA.
The network consists of several stations, each station has 16 sky-pointed astronomical cameras located at several locations in the United Arab Emirates. The cameras automatically record a video file once a meteor is detected. That meteor might just be part of a meteor shower, or it could be a meteorite fall or the reentry of satellite debris! When that meteor is captured from more than one site, its trajectory is calculated so that the meteor shower of origin can be determined, as well as the location of meteorite impact sites in case a meteorite fall happens over the UAE, the station automatically sends video clips to the main center in Abu Dhabi.
The meteor was filmed through an astronomical camera in Remah station and another astronomical camera at Al Wajan station. Since the shot was taken through two cameras, this allowed the path of the meteor to be monitored when entering the Earth’s atmosphere through the calculation of spherical trigonometry, after the necessary calculations and the introduction of wind direction and velocity in the upper atmosphere layers, it was found that the orbital object, which burned into the atmosphere and caused a fireball, is an orbiting object about 384 million km away, and its speed upon entering the atmosphere was 67 thousand km/hr.
