Search for Meteorite Underway in Dunedin
September 3, 2022
Geology students from the University of Otago have been on the trail, searching farmland for a meteorite which was expected to have struck Earth last Sunday, and a local school pupil is hot on their heels.
Fireballs Aotearoa estimated the meteorite landed somewhere southeast of Middlemarch and west of Outram, near Dunedin.
It was captured while falling by night-sky cameras at Dunstan High School and the Beverly Begg Observatory, in Dunedin, set up by Fireballs Aotearoa with the goal of tracking meteorites.