@article{bbdbab64f76e42279cb053c09106cbe1,
title = "A Global Fireball Observatory",
abstract = "The world's meteorite collections contain a very rich picture of what the early Solar System would have been made of, however the lack of spatial context with respect to their parent population for these samples is an issue. The asteroid population is equally as rich in surface mineralogies, and mapping these two populations (meteorites and asteroids) together is a major challenge for planetary science. Directly probing asteroids achieves this at a high cost. Observing meteorite falls and calculating their pre-atmospheric orbit on the other hand, is a cheaper way to approach the problem. The Global Fireball Observatory (GFO) collaboration was established in 2017 and brings together multiple institutions (from Australia, USA, Canada, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and Argentina) to maximise the area for fireball observation time and therefore meteorite recoveries. The members have a choice to operate independently, but they can also choose to work in a fully collaborative manner with other GFO partners. This efficient approach leverages the experience gained from the Desert Fireball Network (DFN) pathfinder project in Australia. The state-of-the art technology (DFN camera systems and data reduction) and experience of the support teams is shared between all partners, freeing up time for science investigations and meteorite searching. With all networks combined together, the GFO collaboration already covers 0.6% of the Earth's surface for meteorite recovery as of mid-2019, and aims to reach 2% in the early 2020s. We estimate that after 5 years of operation, the GFO will have observed a fireball from virtually every meteorite type. This combined effort will bring new, fresh, extra-terrestrial material to the labs, yielding new insights about the formation of the Solar System.",
keywords = "Asteroids: general, Meteoroids, Meteors",
author = "Devillepoix, {H. A.R.} and M. Cup{\'a}k and Bland, {P. A.} and Sansom, {E. K.} and Towner, {M. C.} and Howie, {R. M.} and Hartig, {B. A.D.} and T. Jansen-Sturgeon and Shober, {P. M.} and Anderson, {S. L.} and Benedix, {G. K.} and D. Busan and R. Sayers and P. Jenniskens and J. Albers and Herd, {C. D.K.} and Hill, {P. J.A.} and Brown, {P. G.} and Z. Krzeminski and Osinski, {G. R.} and Aoudjehane, {H. Chennaoui} and Z. Benkhaldoun and A. Jabiri and M. Guennoun and A. Barka and H. Darhmaoui and L. Daly and Collins, {G. S.} and S. McMullan and Suttle, {M. D.} and T. Ireland and G. Bonning and L. Baeza and Alrefay, {T. Y.} and J. Horner and Swindle, {T. D.} and Hergenrother, {C. W.} and Fries, {M. D.} and A. Tomkins and A. Langendam and T. Rushmer and C. O'Neill and D. Janches and Hormaechea, {J. L.} and C. Shaw and Young, {J. S.} and M. Alexander and Mardon, {A. D.} and Tate, {J. R.}",
note = "Funding Information: The NASA Tracking and Recovery Network is funded by NASA grant 80 NSSC18K08 . PJ acknowledges logistic support from NASA{\textquoteright}s SERVII program. Funding Information: This research is supported by the Australian Research Council through the Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities program (LE170100106). The DFN receives institutional support from Curtin University, and uses the computing facilities of the Pawsey supercomputing center. The team would like to thank the people hosting the observatories. The NASA Tracking and Recovery Network is funded by NASA grant 80 NSSC18K08. PJ acknowledges logistic support from NASA's SERVII program. The UKFN would like to thank a number of people helping with the project: Ian McMullan, Adam Suttle, Pierre-Etienne Martin, Cameron Floyd, ?ine O? Brien, Sammy Griffin, Charlotte Slaymark, Annemarie E. Pickersgill, Peter Chung, Joshua F. Einsle, Mohammad Ali Salik. The data reduction pipeline makes intensive use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013). Funding Information: The Global Fireball Observatory (GFO) collaboration was established in 2017 thanks to support from the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) program. The goal is to deploy fireball observatories all around the world to maximise fireball observation area and therefore meteorite recoveries, using common hardware and data reduction, and facilitate collaboration amongst a range of planetary science partner institutions. The project brings together over 19 institutions within Australia, USA, Canada, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, UK, and Argentina ( Table 1 ). A key aspect of the project is that partners have independence. Each partner has a discrete network which is operated entirely independently as a distinct regional or national network. The GFO itself can be thought of as an emergent “network-of-networks”, akin to a large-scale astronomy facility, allowing datasets from partner networks to be consolidated and analysed with common processing. The project builds upon the engineering heritage from the Desert Fireball Network (DFN) pathfinder project in Australia in order to roll out operational partner networks as quickly as possible. Funding Information: This research is supported by the Australian Research Council through the Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities program ( LE170100106 ). The DFN receives institutional support from Curtin University , and uses the computing facilities of the Pawsey supercomputing center. The team would like to thank the people hosting the observatories. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/j.pss.2020.105036",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "191",
journal = "Planetary and Space Science",
issn = "0032-0633",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}