Brazilian Meteor Observation Network: History of creation and first developments

One way to learn more about the space environment in the terrestrial neighborhood is studying the annual flow of meteors that reaches our planet. Long-lasting projects and surveys have been dedicated to observing the sky with the purpose of capturing meteors, and generating large databases that allow searching for patterns in the sporadic meteor background and the identification of meteors associated with large and minor meteor showers. Most of the projects, however, are located in the northern hemisphere, making it difficult to detect southern hemisphere meteor showers. Thus, in order to increase the representativeness of meteor observation in this area and to allow the search for new radiants, BRAMON—the Brazilian Meteor Observation Network—was created, aiming to be a meteor-monitoring network based in Brazil.