Why watch for meteorites in Senegal?

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Why look for meteorites and impact craters in Senegal? How to organize an astro-tour in Ivory Coast? Welcome to a network astronomical program, under the African sky, where we will also reveal the name of the new winner of the astronomical telescope offered by SSVI and RFI…

Appointment for a special astronomy broadcast, recorded under the sky of Dakar in October 2022, with the astrophysicists and astrophysicists of the Fripon mission in Senegal who had just installed, in the country of Teranga, the first 4 cameras of a meteor monitoring network, which should cover all of West Africa. …

broadcast around the FRIPON project (International Meteor Observation Network) and the installation of cameras in Senegal, to detect these meteorites, as well as Space Bus, which makes it possible to discover astronomy and science on the continent.

With David Baratoux (researcher in geosciences), Salma Sylla (Senegalese astrophysicist); Francois Colas (astronomer at the Paris Observatory) and Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba Niang (researcher in geology).

A HUGE congratulations to Djakaou Salatou, teacher in Maroua, Cameroon.

He is the new winner of the astronomical telescope put into play with L’Astronomie Afrique and the SSVI.

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