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Reports of fireball in sky above Maryland, Virginia Wednesday afternoon likely disintegrating meteor
Shooting Stars & Burning Questions
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Midday fireball, boom thrill gazers from New York to Canada
Physics prof. Margaret Campbell-Brown on meteorite blast, asteroid flyby
Biography
Margaret Campbell-Brown is a professor and active researcher in the field of meteor physics. She has been faculty at Western University since 2005. She works with the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office on assessing risks to spacecraft from meteoroids. Scientifically, she is interested in the links between comets, asteroids and meteors, and what small solar system bodies can tell us about the origin of our planet. When she is not doing research, Campbell-Brown enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate Physics and Astronomy courses.