Physics of Meteor Generated Shock Waves in the Earth’s Atmosphere – A ReviewOPEN ACCESS
Elizabeth A. Silber, Mark Boslough, Wayne K. Hocking, Maria Gritsevich, Rodney W. Whitaker Advances in Space Research, Review 19 May 2018 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Shock waves and the associated phenomena generated by strongly ablating…
Meteor showers from active asteroids and dormant comets in near-Earth space: a reviewOPEN ACCESS
Quan-Zhi Ye Planetary and Space Science in press PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Small bodies in the solar system are conventionally classified into asteroids and comets. However, it is recently found that a small number of objects…
Identification of meteorite source regions in the solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Mikael Granvik, Peter Brown Icarus Available online 14 April 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the number of automated camera networks that monitor…
A Preliminary Analysis of the Shangri-La Bolide on 2017 Oct 4OPEN ACCESS
Quan-Zhi Ye Earth and Planetary Physics in press PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “At 12:07 UT (8:07 pm China Standard Time) on 2017 Oct 4, a bright bolide was widely observed in the Shangri-La region in the…
Probing the use of spectroscopy to determine the meteoritic analogues of meteorsOPEN ACCESS
A. Drouard, P. Vernazza, S. Loehle, J. Gattacceca, J. Vaubaillon, B. Zanda, M. Birlan, S. Bouley, et al. A&A, Forthcoming article Accepted: 26 January 2018 LINK Update (16 February 2018): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Context. Determining…
Luminous efficiency estimates of meteors -II. Application to Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory meteor eventsOPEN ACCESS
Dilini Subasinghe, Margaret Campbell-Brown Accepted December 19, 2017 to The Astronomical Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Luminous efficiency is a necessary parameter for determining meteoroid mass from optical emission. Despite this importance, it is very poorly…
Autonomous spectrographic system to analyse the main elements of fireballs and meteorsOPEN ACCESS
Francisco Ángel Espartero, Germán Martínez, Marta Frías, Francisco Simón Montes Moya and Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:2 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present a meteor observation system based on imaging CCD cameras,…
Calibration-free quantitative elemental analysis of meteor plasma using reference laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of meteorite samples
Martin Ferus, Jakub Koukal, Libor Lenza, Jiri Srba, Petr Kubelik, Vojtech Laitl, Ekaterina M. Zanozina, Pavel Vana, Tereza Kaiserova, Antonin Knizek, Paul Rimmer, Elias Chatzitheodoridis, and Svatopluk Civid A&A, Forthcoming article Accepted: 03 December 2017…
Proto-type installation of a double-station system for the optical-video-detection and orbital characterisation of a meteor/fireball in South KoreaOPEN ACCESS
Tobias Cornelius Hinse, Woo-Kyum Kim, Sang-Hyeon Ahn, Jae-Keun Lee, Jun-Hyeong Park, Young-Woo Lee, Woo-Jung Jeong, Sang-Min Woo Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We give a detailed description of the installation and…
Submillisecond fireball timing using de Bruijn timecodes.
Howie, R. M., Paxman, J., Bland, P. A., Towner, M. C., Sansom, E. K. and Devillepoix, H. A. R. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 10.1111/maps.12878 Available online 16 May 2017 LINK “Long-exposure fireball photographs have been…
How to build a continental scale fireball camera network
Robert M. Howie, Jonathan Paxman, Philip A. Bland, Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupak, Eleanor K. Sansom, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix Experimental Astronomy (2017) doi:10.1007/s10686-017-9532-7 First Online: 11 May 2017 LINK “The expansion of the Australian…
Current status of Polish Fireball Network
M. Wiśniewski, P. Żołądek, A. Olech, Z. Tyminski, M. Maciejewski, K. Fietkiewicz, R. Rudawska, M. Gozdalski, M.P. Gawroński, T. Suchodolski, M. Myszkiewicz, M. Stolarz, K. Polakowski Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available…
Comparing eyewitness-derived trajectories of bright meteors to instrumentally-observed data
D.E. Moser Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 March 2017 LINK “Highlights • A tool to calculate crude meteor trajectories from eyewitness reports is described. • The tool’s performance is…
Modelling a short-wake meteor as a single or fragmenting body
M. Campbell-Brown Planetary and Space Science In Press, Available online 22 February 2017 LINK “An attempt is made to model a meteor observed with the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory tracking system using a single body…
The January 7, 2015, superbolide over Romania and structural diversity of meter-sized asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurný, Valentin I. Grigore, Ján Svoreň accepted in Planetary and Space Science PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16 Feb 2017): abstract “Superbolides, i.e. extremely bright meteors produced by entries of meter-sized bodies into…
Mass Accumulation of Earth from Interplanetary Dust, Meteoroids, Asteroids and Comets
Gerhard Drolshagen, Detlef Koschny, Sandra Drolshagen, Jana Kretschmer, Björn Poppe Planetary and Space Science SI:Meteoroids 2016 Available online 14 February 2017 LINK “Using new data and recent models this paper derives a total combined flux…
Photoacoustic Sounds from MeteorsOPEN ACCESS
Richard Spalding, John Tencer, William Sweatt, Benjamin Conley, Roy Hogan, Mark Boslough, GiGi Gonzales & Pavel Spurný Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 41251 (2017) doi:10.1038/srep41251 Published online: 01 February 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
PF120916 Piecki fireball and Reszel meteorite fallOPEN ACCESS
A. Olech, P. Żołądek, Z. Tymiński, M. Stolarz, M. Wiśniewski, M. Bęben, T. Lewandowski, K. Polak, A. Raj, P. Zaręba accepted for publication in Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “On…
Luminous Efficiency Estimates of Meteors -I. Uncertainty analysis
Dilini Subasinghe, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Edward Stokan Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 7 January 2017 LINK “Highlights • The uncertainty in the luminous efficiency of meteors is examined. • Luminous efficiency…
Meteor studies in the framework of the JEM-EUSO program
G. Abdellaoui, S. Abe, A. Acheli, J.H. Adams Jr., S. Ahmad, A. Ahriche, J.-N. Albert, D. Allard, G. Alonso, L. Anchordoqui, V. Andreev, A. Anzalone, W. Aouimeur, Y. Arai, N. Arsene, K. Asano, R. Attallah,…
Asteroid Fragmentation Approaches for Modeling Atmospheric Energy Deposition
Paul J. Register, Donovan L. Mathias, Lorien F. Wheeler Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Fragmentation modeling approaches are compared using Chelyabinsk meteor data. • A new model…
Altitudinal dependence of meteor radio afterglows measured via optical counterparts
K. S. Obenberger, J. M. Holmes, J. D. Dowell, F. K. Schinzel, K. Stovall, E. K. Sutton, G. B. Taylor Geophysical Research Letters 43 DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070059 LINK “Key Points We have measured the positions of…
Rates, flux densities, and spectral indices of meteor radio afterglows
Obenberger, K. S., J. D. Dowell, P. J. Hancock, J. M. Holmes, T. R. Pedersen, F. K. Schinzel, and G. B. Taylor J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 6808–6817 Version of Record online: 9 JUL…
Determination of the height of the “meteoric explosion”
V. V. Shuvalov, O. P. Popova, V. V. Svettsov, I. A. Trubetskaya… Solar System Research January 2016, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp 1-12 First online: 22 January 2016 (Original Russian Text © V.V. Shuvalov, O.P….
Dynamic radio spectra from two fireballs
K. S. Obenberger, G. B. Taylor, C. S. Lin, J. Dowell, F. K. Schinzel and K. Stovall Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 120, 9916–9928 Version of Record online: 14 NOV 2015 DOI: 10.1002/2015JA021229 LINK…
Laboratory Analyses of Meteoric Debris in the Upper stratosphere from Settling Bolide Dust Clouds
F.J.M. Rietmeijer, V. Della Corte, M. Ferrari, A. Rotundi, R. Brunetto Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 7 November 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.11.003 LINK “Bolide and fireball fragmentation produce vast amounts of dust that will slowly…
Orbit determination based on meteor observations using numerical integration of equations of motion
Vasily Dmitriev, Valery Lupovka, Maria Gritsevich Planetary and Space Science Available online 3 July 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.06.015 LINK
A population of small refractory meteoroids in asteroidal orbits
M. Campbell-Brown Planetary and Space Science available online 2 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.03.022 LINK
Spectroscopy of a κ-Cygnid fireball afterglow
José M. Madiedo Planetary and Space Science (accepted for publication on March 22, 2015 ) LINK PDF (full text)
Optical observations of meteors generating infrasound: Weak shock theory and validation
Silber, E. A., P. G. Brown, and Z. Krzeminski (2015) J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JE004680 Article first published online: 18 MAR 2015 LINK
Approximation by elementary functions for the solution of meteor physics equations (in Russian) / АППРОКСИМАЦИЯ РЕШЕНИЯ УРАВНЕНИЙ МЕТЕОРНОЙ ФИЗИКИ ЭЛЕМЕНТАРНЫМИ ФУНКЦИЯМИ
М.И. Грицевич, В.Т. Лукашенко, Л.И. Турчак M.I. Gritsevich, V.T. Lukashenko, L.I. Turchak LINK (DOC)
Meteoroids Interaction with the Earth Atmosphere
Turchak L.I., Gritsevich M.I. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Publishing House of the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), том 44, № 4, с. 15-28 DOI accepted 17 November 2014 DOI: 10.2478/jtam-2014-0020 PDF LINK
Bolide seen from Loxton, Riverland district, South Australia, 2 January 2015, 13:39:12 UTC
Bolide seen from Loxton, Riverland district, South Australia, 2 January 2015, 13:39:12 UTC (3 December, 12:09:12 AM local) seen moving towards northnorthwest, at least 8 seconds Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3 Screenshot 4 Screenshot…
Optical Observations of Meteors Generating Infrasound – II: Weak Shock Theory and Validation
Elizabeth A. Silber, Peter G. Brown, Zbigniew Krzeminski Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets arXiv:1411.5406 PDF LINK LINK
Meteor and trail in time lapse
video shot on October 16th, 2014 by Wes Eisenhauer outside of Custer, South Dakota. (120 consecutive 30 second exposures) Originally posted HERE by Wes Eisenhauer on October 31, 2014 Watch in HD (full screen) original…
Reanalysis of the Benešov bolide and recovery of polymict breccia meteorites – old mystery solved after 20 years
Pavel Spurný, Jakub Haloda, Jiří Borovička, Lukáš Shrbený and Patricie Halodová Published online: 14 October 2014 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424308 LINK (full text) PDF LINK (full text) Abstract The main motivation for this work was to explain…
Bolide on the weather report 2 October 22:37 local time (2:37 UTC, 4:37 CEST), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
TVA evening news show Meteor was probably above New York State VIDEO (full screen) LINK
Trajectory, orbit, and spectroscopic analysis of a bright fireball observed over Spain on April 13, 2013
José M. Madiedo, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Jaime Zamorano, Leonor Ana-Hernández, Jaime Izquierdo, José L. Ortiz, Aberto J. Castro-Tirado, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel, Francisco Ocaña, Sensi Pastor, José A. de los Reyes, David Galadí, Enrique de…
Meteor, 7 September, 6:57 a.m. local time, Catalunya, Spain
Meteor, 7 September, 6:57 a.m. local time, Catalunya, Spain smoke trail above Vall de Lord (photo: David Gaspar): PHOTO LINK LINK (Original) Video (4:56:47 – 4:56:52 UTC recorded in Folgueroles by Pep Pujols): VIDEO Imatge…
