Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar

As an aside, it makes me happy to see a website which has so thoroughly embraced the "hypertext" in HTML. I could easily spend an hour reading this article and diving into the links. I just subscribed!

This article, linked from within the NEXRAD article, is also super cool: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/up-on-the-roof-a-hand...

I’m familiar with radar showing swarms of insects or migratory birds, but meteor trails?! Very cool.

Sadly, the article mentions that the radar network seems to have been re-tuned since 2012 and now only rarely shows meteors.

There are other ways to do it, though— you can set up your own meteor-detecting camera and register it with the American Meteor Society if you want to contribute data:

https://www.amsmeteors.org/cameras/

On a similar note, there was this video from the Verge on collecting roof-top micro-meteorites that was quite interesting to follow:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18211112/meteorites-space-...

I'm always amazed when people figure out how to find new and interesting data from existing systems. Whether it's something like this, or say sniffing keyboard strokes from audio, a lot of times the information you need is right there, you just need to think outside the box about how to see it.

The sky camera network is something I had been thinking about for a long time. I’m glad to see it’s real! Only a handful here in Canada... it would be fun to have one set up (send me one? :)