Free Smarthone App for Tracking Fireballs
We’ve developed a smartphone app that allows anyone to report a fireball sighting anywhere in the world. Its designed so that we can potentially get data of sufficient quality to create a crowd source smartphone fireball network. Its free, fun to use (we hope!), and it has a very easy interface – simply point at the sky where you think the fireball started and click on your phone, and do the same for where you think it ended. You can then input a variety of other data. If we get enough observations we can determine a trajectory and send that information back to you – for instance, you might get a message that the rock that made your fireball came from the outer asteroid belt, or that it was a chunk of a comet. The app also includes images and updates from our project:
It is available for both iOS and Android:
or just search for ‘fireballs in the sky’ on app stores. Let us know if you have any problems, or suggestions for improvements. Hope you have fun with it!
