Curtin team successfully tracks and recovers a meteorite. What a feeling!

Learn more! Planetary geologist, Professor Phil Bland led a team of students from Curtin’s Desert Fireball Network team that used remote cameras to track a meteorite that recently entered the earth’s orbit and landed in Kati-Thanda/Lake Eyre in remote South Australia. After 3 days of trekking through mud, they only had a few hours to recover the meteorite before the arrival of heavy rains that would have wiped out