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Mission statement - CAMS is an automated video surveillance of the night sky in search of meteor showers to validate the IAU Working List of Meteor Showers. [Contact]

CAMS Meteoroid Orbit Database v2.0
[CAMS California (73 Mb)]
[CAMS BeNeLux]
[Documentation]
Day-by-day tally

Meteorite falls:
Creston fall (2015-10-24)
Chelyabinsk fall (2013-02-15)
Novato fall (2012-10-17)
Sutter's Mill fall (2012-04-22)

eye Report visual accounts of fireball sighting here.

Report possible meteorite finds from Novato or Sutter's Mill: Petrus.M.Jenniskens@nasa.gov

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California map of station locations.
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NewZealand map of station locations.
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BeNeLux map of station locations.
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Atlantic map of station locations.
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Florida map of station locations.

Key Personnel:

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Dr. Peter Jenniskens,
SETI Institute, Principal Investigator
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[Career pages]

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Peter S. Gural,
S.A.I.C., meteor detection algoritms
[email]

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Matt Day and Lorena Perez,
Border Collie Solutions, Inc., video surveillance
[email]

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Rick Morales,
Fremont Peak Observatory
[email]

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Bryant Grigsby,
CAMS station at Lick Observatory
[Career pages]

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Jim Albers,
CAMS station Sunnyvale

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Dave Samuels,
Single CAMS networks
[email]

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Jeremie Vaubaillon,
Observatoire de Paris, France, Meteor stream dynamics modelling
[email]
[Career pages]

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David Nesvorny,
SWRI, Boulder, zodiacal dust cloud modelling
[Career pages]

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Carl Johannink,
Coordination BeNeLux network

FP - Fremont Peak Observatory:
LO - Lick Observatory:
SV - Sunnyvale:
FH - Foresthill Clear Sky Clock:

CAMS Florida Clear Sky Clock:
CAMS Atlantic Clear Sky Clock:


News blog:

2015, November 26 - Happy Thanksgiving. The Meteoritical Society published the Bulletin on Creston, the meteorite fall that occurred in California in the evening of October 23. It is an L6 ordinary chondrite. As of November 10, four meteorites were found by meteorite hunters.

October 24 fireball This fireball was captured in an all-sky camera located at the CAMS station site in Sunnyvale on 2015 October 24 between 05:47:27 and 05:47:57 UT.

2015, October 24 - A bright fireball was captured in our allsky camera in Sunnyvale, California, in a south-eastern direction on Friday night October 23 at 22:47 local time. The firball appeared just outside of the CAMS survey area, but was widely reported to the American Meteor Society. Sonic booms were heard and it is possible that meteorites may have fallen. If you captured this meteor in video security footage or in photographs (Fresno area, southern California, Central California), please contact Dr. Peter Jenniskens.



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SETI Institute logo Curator: Peter Jenniskens
Responsible NASA Official: Lindley Johnson (NEOO)

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