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The Department of Physics and Astronomy

Meteor Physics

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Fireball Events

The Tagish Lake Fireball and Meteorite [18-Jan-2000]

Dust Cloud Photos

Photograph of visible meteorite trail, illuminated by sunlight. (C) Doug Davidege.

Photograph of visible meteorite trail, illuminated by sunlight. (C) Doug Davidege.

Dust cloud as seen from Whitehorse ~10 minutes after the fireball. (C) Vince Federoff, Whitehorse Star.

Resulting dust cloud visible in Edmonton hours later. (C) Larry Wood.

Dust cloud. (C) Rod Wheeler.

Dust cloud drawing. (C) Beet Korner.

Dust cloud. (C) Rod Wheeler.

Dust cloud. (C) Schildnect.

Dust cloud. (C) Schildnect.

Dust cloud as seen from Edmonton. (C)Mark Zalcik.

Dust cloud as seen from Edmonton. (C)Mark Zalcik.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Ewald Lemke.

Dust cloud. (C)Hollie Ford.

Dust cloud. (C)Hollie Ford.

Dust cloud. (C) Vic Fedoroff.

Dust cloud. (C) Lisa Wiebe.

Dust cloud. (C)Lisa Wiebe.

Dust cloud. (C)Pam Blackburn.

Research Activities

Meteor Infrasound
- What is Infrasound?
- Meteor Infrasound
  - Overview
  - Advantages
- The Elginfield Array
- Interesting Events
  - Overview
  - Mysterious Explosions
  - Meth Lab Explosion
  - Propane Facility Explosion
  - Oil Refinery Explosion
  - Observations of Space Shuttle
  - Norway Fireball of 2006
- Research Projects
  - Current Projects
  - Future Projects for Students
- Publications
Meteor Radar
- How Meteors are Observed with radar
  - Observing with radar 1
  - Observing with radar 2
- The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)
- The Upgraded CMOR II
- Research Projects
- Publications
Fireball Measurements
- What is a Fireball?
- Fireball Events by Date
  - Selwyn Meteorite
    [12-Dec-2011]
    - Overview
    - Fall Map
    - Videos
  - Grimsby Meteorite
    [25-Sept-2009]
  - Newmarket Fireball
    [16-Mar-2009]
    - Overview
    - Fall Map
    - Still Photos
    - Videos
  - Guelph Fireball
    [15-Oct-2008]
    - Overview
    - Fall Map
    - Still Photos
    - Videos
  - Park Forest Meteorite
    [27-Mar-2003]
    - Videos
    - Publications
  - Tagish Lake Meteorite
    [18-Jan-2000]
  - Peekskill Meteorite
    [09-Oct-1992]
- U.S Department of Defense Bolide Releases
- Research Projects
- Publications
All-Sky Camera Network
Electro-Optical Observations
- Overview
- Deep Gen II System
- Widefield Gen II System
- Widefield Gen III System
- Gated Intensified Camera
- Telescoped Gated Intensified Camera
- The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory (CAMO)
- Research Projects
- Publications
Meteor Entry Modelling
Orbital Dynamics
- Research Projects
- Publications