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This paper reports the birth of the Spanish Photographic Meteor Network (SPMN), a project that began their activities in 1997 through professional and amateur astronomers, coinciding with the high activity associated to several stream’s outbursts. One of the objectives of the network is to develop a continuous fireball monitoring in Spain and to obtain orbital and chemical information on meteoroids. Today the SPMN is a solid project under the auspices of three Universities (University Jaume I, University of Valencia and University of Barcelona) and one Space Institute (Catalonian Institute for Space Studies). The National Institute for Aerospace Research (INTA) and the Scientific Research Council (CSIC) also collaborate in the project.
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Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M., Fabregat, J., Llorca, J., Castro-Tirado, A. (2001). Spanish Photographic Meteor Network: An interdisciplinary crosslink. In: Chela-Flores, J., Owen, T., Raulin, F. (eds) First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1017-7_67
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