Title: Observation of meteors with the PRISMA and Mini-EUSO projects

Author: Dario Barghini

Abstract:
In this seminar, I will briefly review the research activities carried
out within the PRISMA and Mini-EUSO projects for meteor and fireball
observations in Italy.
PRISMA is the First Italian Network for the Systematic surveillance of
Meteors and the Atmosphere, born in 2017 at the Astrophysical
Observatory in Turin, that nowadays counts more than 60 cameras over the
Italian territory. It observed more than 2000 bolides and successfully
recovered one meteorite on the 4th January 2020, names Cavezzo.
On the other hand, Mini-EUSO is a very wide field of view UV telescope
installed on August 2019 inside the Zvezda Module of the ISS, looking
nadir through a UV transparent window. It is a mission of the JEM-EUSO
program, which main scientific objective is to observe Extensive Air
Showers generated by UHE cosmic rays. Looking in the UV to the Earth's
atmosphere and surface, it can detect a wide range of light phenomena,
and also meteors.