AMOS Cam (All-sky Meteor Orbit System) designed by Juraj Toth of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at the Comenius University in Bratislava in co-operation with scientists from the Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory in Modra won the gold medal at the 2013 INVENTO fair in Prague.
"It monitors the inflow of interplanetary matter to the Earth in the form of meteors and meteorites, which can be in a sense viewed as messages in a bottle revealing more about the state of the solar system when it appeared, as well as about its future evolution," said Toth. A prototype of the system has been in use at the Modra Observatory since 2007. It is used, for example, to calculate the trajectory and an approximate place in which a celestial body will fall.
