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Prairie Meteorite Network

former system of 16 automatic camera stations in the midwestern United States acquiring orbital and trajectory data on extremely bright meteors
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Summary

Prairie Meteorite Network is a division[1]. It draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (division category, ranking #75 of 107).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: astrophotography[3], astrophysics[4]
  • Instance of: research program[5], bolide network[6]
  • Part of: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory[7]
  • Archives at: Smithsonian Institution Archives[8]
  • Inception: 1964[9], 1962[10]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1975[11]
  • Parent organization or unit: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory[12]
  • Director / manager: Richard Eugene McCrosky[13]
  • Operating area: Midwestern United States[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Smithsonian Names[15]
  • Funder: National Aeronautics and Space Administration[16]

Why It Matters

Prairie Meteorite Network is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Guide to the Smithsonian Archives. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16h ago · BornOnTheCob · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/Prairie-Network
    Director / manager → Richard Eugene McCrosky
    Funder → National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Field of work → astrophotography, astrophysics
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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