Director of the Center for International Astronomy Engineer Mohamed Shawkat Odeh that a team of the Center in cooperation with some local authorities on Tuesday (March 12th) conducted a search for the potential meteorite in the area previously identified for the place of the fall of the meteorite.
The team was divided into four groups. Each group looked at a specific area. After a process of explaining to the team members about the potential meteorite and identifying the area of each group, the groups began searching for the potential meteorite. At the end of the research, Black rock, and second iron - rocky signs of rust.
And by conducting rapid tests showing the magnetic properties of the second sample, which attracted magnetism. The Center immediately contacted NASA's partners in the US space agency, NASA, and showed samples of them, and the guesses now indicate that the iron-rock sample may actually be a meteorite, but it is probably due to an old meteorite. Rust marks indicate that the sample Have been on the ground for some time. Accordingly, the Center will carry out the second phase, which is the laboratory analysis of the sample to ascertain its components and their significance.
It is noteworthy that the cameras of the Emirates Astronomical Network to monitor the meteors and meteorites recorded a very bright fireball appeared in the skies of the UAE on Tuesday, 05 March, at 7 pm and 40 minutes and 11 seconds UAE time.
The network of cameras has been created by the Center for International Astronomy in different parts of the UAE, and managed by the Center in cooperation with NASA, the network consists of several stations, each station 16 astronomical camera directed to the sky, The station automatically transmits video clips to the main station in Abu Dhabi.
The fireball was filmed through an astronomical camera at the Ramah station and was also filmed through another astronomical camera at the Al Wajn station. Since the fireball was shot through two cameras, this allows the path of the fireball to enter the Earth's atmosphere Through the calculation of spherical trigonometry, after calculations and the introduction of wind direction and velocity in the upper atmosphere layers, it was found that the orbital object, which burned into the atmosphere and caused a fireball, was an object orbiting the Sun 384 million km away, To orbit the earth around The sun, and its speed was upon entering the atmosphere of 67 thousand kilometers per hour!
According to calculations, the combustion of the fireball started at 93 km above the surface of the earth between the ground and Umm al-Zamul. The ball went northwest, until the combustion ended at a height of 35 km near the area of Razin. There is a high probability that the orb It is not clear that the meteorite site is located to the east slightly of the path of the fireball, because of the direction of the western wind that day, which obliterates the offense during its fall. , And the strongest probability refers to a Meteor upon arrival to the ground had fallen in the area near the village of Arabian Nights Resort. Estimates range from the mass of the meteorite, which reached between 2 and 10 grams (1 to 3 cm), with a potential mass greater than that. The meteorites may have great scientific value sometimes, especially if they come from the moon or from other planets.