F is for Fireball (The NASA All-sky Fireball Network) and 2014 Celestial Calendar

The NASA All-sky Fireball Network is a network of cameras set up by the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) with the goal of observing meteors brighter than the planet Venus, which are called fireballs. The collected data will be used by the MEO in constructing models of the meteoroid environment, which are important to spacecraft designers.   The network currently consists of 12 cameras, 6 of which are placed in locations in north Alabama, north Georgia, southern Tennessee, and south...