Balloonist Julian Nott of Santa Barbara had an accident a few hours after landing his latest balloon on Sunday, March 24. He sustained head injuries and passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon, March 26, 2019. A pioneer in ballooning, Nott holds 79 world ballooning records, including exceeding 55,000 feet in the hot air balloon that is now on display in the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Julian took part as an observer in two of SETI Institute's airborne observing campaigns, working with Peter Jenniskens on remote observations of the Jules Verne spacecraft re-entry and the Aurigid meteor outburst. Julian's latest project was a new balloon designed for high altitude ballooning in which conventional ballast was replaced with cryogenic helium. At the invitation of Nott, the balloon carried a SETI Institute-contributed surveillance system of low-light video cameras for meteor imaging, part of several scientific experiments onboard.

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