Heritage Ministry detects meteorites between January and April

Muscat: After installing meteorite detection devices in key areas around the Sultanate of Oman, the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism has been able to document a number of meteorites over the first four months of the current year (2022).

This consummates the Ministry’s efforts to inventory and protect meteorites that fall within the territory of the Sultanate.
This important national project is one of the projects that the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism is implementing within the digital transformation projects and using the latest technologies and digital solutions in this field.

The meteorites detection project was realised in cooperation with the Natural History Museum of Berne, Switzerland, and Curtin University of Australia.

It documented specimens of the meteorites that entered the Sultanate of Oman’s airspace and indicated their precise sites as they penetrated the sphere.

The success of the Omani experiment is considered one of the unique and pioneering experiments in the world that will enable the Sultanate of Oman to monitor meteors directly the moment they enter the atmosphere and determine the path of their fall.