Meteorite hunters make 'amazing' discovery deep in WA outback

Experts person scoured hundreds of kilometres of brackish flats heavy successful nan West Australian outback to find pieces of meteorite that lit up nan nighttime entity complete Perth and different parts of nan state.

Researchers from Curtin University utilized precocious upwind modelling to foretell nan meteorite had landed successful Lake Hope – astir a 7 hr thrust eastbound of Perth – aft its Mother's Day nighttime ray show.

The Desert Fireball Network has a web of cameras each astir nan state designed to return pictures of really agleam fireballs.

"We did immoderate beautiful advanced, like, upwind modelling arsenic good to fig out, erstwhile it slowed down enough, really would it beryllium affected by nan wind," planetary intelligence Dr Hadrien Devillepoix said.

Once they arrived, they walked crossed brackish flats for much than 7 kilometres earlier making a discovery.

"We recovered a meteorite, wow that's amazing," Mia Walker tin beryllium seen exclaiming successful exclusive 9News imagination of nan search.

They discovered 2 chunks of abstraction rock, including 1 that was among nan largest they'd ever found.

"Here's a portion of abstraction stone that's been travelling nan star strategy for 4 and a half cardinal years," Devillepoix said.

"And now it's successful our hands and we tin usage it for science, that's truthful exciting."

The samples will now beryllium taken to a laboratory truthful researchers tin find what type of meteorites they are and wherever successful abstraction they came from.

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