A student researcher from Western Australia’s Curtain University has used a drone to help pinpoint the location of a meteorite fragment on the remote Nullarbor Plain. Thousands of small meteorites are thought to hit Earth’s surface each year, but for every impact witnessed almost 800 space rock chunks land in oceans or remote landscapes and go unnoticed. A young Australian researcher last year came up with what he thought to be a sound method for locating fallen meteors more efficiently, accurately and often. Putting his money where his mouth was, Curtain University graduate student Seamus Anderson went out and pinpointed the exact spot of a freshly fallen sample on WA’s vast Nullarbor Plain in April. He and his search party unearthed the meteorite fragment on remote Kybo cattle station by referencing its whereabouts from drone footage and then using artificial intelligence to scan the landing area. The university’s Space Science …