The moment he saw the video of the fire meteorite, Li Bofang was exuberant. He believed that it would bring a meteorite shower.
After determining the basic direction of this meteorite rain, he immediately booked a plane ticket and traveled all the way from Beijing to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. The next step was to take part in a frantic search for meteorites.
▲ Video 丨 field search site, someone shouted "a gram of 10,000"
A large-scale meteorite rain
The night of June 1, the International Meteorological Institute, "meteorite enthusiasts site
There was no Wi-Fi in the park, and he didn't immediately click on the video. He came home ten minutes later to take a look, and was immediately hyper. Based on the direction of the fiery meteor's flight, he decided it must have brought a meteor shower.
The video shows someone square dancing by the Lancang River. "Using the tall buildings in the video as a reference, I judged the direction of the fire meteor flight to be east to west."
Since 2000, meteorite collection has become a hobby for Li Bofang, who has gradually become a representative of the "meteorite hunter" team in China. This time, he was ready to go at any time.
The next morning, he saw a Dai villagers to show the meteorite video, "but they said the dialect, I found someone to translate, identified in the Xishuangbanna border zone meteorite landing." Li Bofang said.
He immediately notified his friend Lv Jincheng, who is far away in Guangdong, "I told him to hurry to Xishuangbanna, and never delay." Lv Jincheng is a meteorite business practitioners, "KK meteorite studio" in charge.