The Great Chinese Fireball of December 22, 2020OPEN ACCESS
Albino Carbognani manuscript submitted to EPJPlus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “On December 22, 2020 at about 23h 23m 33s UTC a very bright fireball was seen in the sky of south-eastern China. The fireball lasted for…
Luminous efficiency based on FRIPON meteorsOPEN ACCESS
Esther Drolshagen, Theresa Ott, Detlef Koschny, Gerhard Drolshagen, Jeremie Vaubaillon, Francois Colas, Josep Maria Trigo-Rodriguez, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bouley, Simon Jeanne, Adrien Malgoyre, Mirel Birlan, Pierre Vernazza, Daniele Gardiol, Dan Alin Nedelcu, Jim Rowe, Mathieu…
Halo Meteors
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb New AstronomyAvailable online 2 November 2020 LINK “Highlights • We propose a search for interstellar meteors originating from Milky Way Halo stars• We show that halo meteors would be kinematically distinct…
Satellite observation of the dust trail of a major bolide event over the Bering Sea on December 18, 2018OPEN ACCESS
J. Borovicka, M. Setvak, H. Roesli, J. K. Kerkmann accepted for publication in A&A PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “One of the most energetic bolide events in recent decades was detected by the US Government sensors (USGS)…
High precision meteor observations with the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory — Data reduction pipeline and application to meteoroid mechanical strength measurementsOPEN ACCESS
Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Robert J. Weryk, Gunter Stober, John P. McCormack Accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (10 September 2020): LINK “The mirror tracking system of the Canadian…
Simulating the Benešov bolide flowfield and spectrum at altitudes of 47 and 57 km
Christopher O. Johnston, Eric C. Stern, Jiří Borovička IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 10 August 2020 LINK “Highlights • State-of-the-art meteor flowfield and luminosity model developed for the continuum flow regime.• Developed model includes…
Analysis of Ionospheric Disturbances Caused by the 2018 Bering Sea Meteor Explosion Based on GPS ObservationsOPEN ACCESS
Yiyong Luo, Yibin Yao and Lulu Shan Sensors 2020, 20(11), 3201Published: 4 June 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (download) “The Bering Sea meteor explosion that occurred on 18 December 2018 provides a good opportunity to study…
The influence of meteor measurement errors on the heliocentric orbits of meteoroids
Mária Hajduková, Leonard Kornoš Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 7 June 2020, 104965 LINK “Highlights • We tested the dependence of the heliocentric orbital elements on the reduced meteor data, the pre-atmospheric velocity and the…
The all-sky-6 and the Video Meteor Archive system of the AMS Ltd.
Mike Hankey, Vincent Perlerin, David Meisel Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 3 June 2020 LINK “Over a period of several years, the American Meteor Society, Ltd. (AMS) has developed a custom…
FRIPON: a worldwide network to track incoming meteoroidsOPEN ACCESS
F. Colas, B. Zanda, S. Bouley, S. Jeanne, A. Malgoyre, M. Birlan, C. Blanpain, J. Gattacceca, L. Jorda, J. Lecubin, C. Marmo, J.L. Rault, J. Vaubaillon, P. Vernazza, C. Yohia, D. Gardiol, A. Nedelcu, B….
Fireball fragmentation in the first half of the atmospheric trajectory
Lukáš Shrbený, Pavel Spurný, Jiří Borovička Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 May 2020 LINK “Highlights • Results on the fragmentation of fireballs in the first half of their atmospheric trajectory…
On the sodium enhancement in spectra of slow meteors and the origin of Na-rich meteoroidsOPEN ACCESS
Pavol Matlovič, Juraj Tóth, Leonard Kornoš, Stefan Loehle IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 22 April 2020 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Highlights • The effect of speed dependency on the measured Na/Mg intensity ratio in…
A model for meteoroid ablation including melting and vaporization
Bruno Dias, Alessandro Turchi, Eric C. Stern, Thierry E. Magin Icarus In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 3 March 2020 LINK “Highlights • Comparison of a meteoroid ablation model, which comprises melting and vaporization, with…
Velocity distribution of larger meteoroids and small asteroids impacting EarthOPEN ACCESS
Esther Drolshagen, Theresa Ott, Detlef Koschny, Gerhard Drolshagen, Anna Kristiane Schmidt, Björn Poppe Planetary and Space Science In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 February 2020 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The velocity distribution…
A Two Year Survey for VLF Emission from FireballsOPEN ACCESS
C. Y. Sung, P. Brown, R. Marshall accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Here we report on a two year continuous survey to examine possible VLF signals associated with meteors…
Estimating trajectories of meteors: an observational Monte Carlo approach — II. ResultsOPEN ACCESS
Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Paul Wiegert, Peter S. Gural Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “In the first paper of this series we examined existing methods of optical meteor trajectory…
Estimating trajectories of meteors: an observational Monte Carlo approach – I. TheoryOPEN ACCESS
Denis Vida, Peter S Gural, Peter G Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Paul Wiegert Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 491, Issue 2, January 2020, Pages 2688–2705 Update (23rd April): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “It…
Interactions between asteroid fragments during atmospheric entryOPEN ACCESS
P.J. Register, M.J. Aftosmis, E.C. Stern, J.M. Brock, P.M. Seltner, S. Willems, A. Guelhan, D.L. Mathias P.M. Seltner, S. Willems, A. Guelhan Icarus In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 October 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar OriginOPEN ACCESS
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb PDF (OPEN ACCESS) submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters “The first interstellar object, `Oumuamua, was discovered in the Solar System by Pan-STARRS in 2017, allowing for a calibration of the abundance…
Inference of meteoroid characteristics using a genetic algorithmOPEN ACCESS
Ana Maria Tarano, Lorien Wheeler, Sigrid Close, Donovan Mathias Icarus LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) • A new approach for automatically inferring meteoroid parameters is presented. • Objective function and tuning parameters for the…
Can we predict the impact conditions of meter-sized meteoroids?OPEN ACCESS
Jorge I. Zuluaga [SEAP/IF/UdeA], Pablo A. Cuartas-Restrepo [SEAP/IF/UdeA],Jhonatan Ospina [SAA/CAMO], Mario Sucerquia [SEAP/IF/UdeA] Submitted to MNRAS Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A few meter-sized meteoroids impact the atmosphere of the Earth per year. Most (if not…
Probabilistic Assessment of Tunguska-scale Asteroid ImpactsOPEN ACCESS
F. Wheeler, Donovan L. Mathias Icarus Available online 6 December 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The PAIR model is used to assess 50 million Tunguska-scale asteroid impacts with probabilistically distributed properties….
Hydrocode simulations of asteroid airbursts and constraints for TunguskaOPEN ACCESS
Darrel K. Robertson, Donovan L. Mathias Icarus Available online 21 October 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Hydrocode simulations of asteroid airbursts of interest to planetary defense. • Both asteroids and comets plausible for Tunguska…
Comparing Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Meteoroid Orbit Determination using Hayabusa TelemetryOPEN ACCESS
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Eleanor K. Sansom, Phil A. Bland PDF (OPEN ACCESS) last revised 22 Aug 2019 “Fireball networks establish the trajectories of meteoritic material passing through Earth’s atmosphere, from which they can derive pre-entry orbits….
Atmospheric Energy Deposition Modeling and Inference for Varied Meteoroid StructuresOPEN ACCESS
Lorien F. Wheeler, Donovan L. Mathias, Edward Stokan, Peter G. Brown Icarus Available online 28 June 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The fragment-cloud model is extended to represent atmospheric breakup of…
Bolide of asteroid 2018 LA (ZLAF9B2) above Botswana on 2 June 2018 at ~18.49.17-23 local time (UTC+2)
Last update: 7 July 2018 First meteorite (17.92 g) of Botswana bolide of 2018 LA (2 June 2018) found in Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana The bolide of asteroid 2018 LA CCTV recording by Barend…
MANGUI (L6, S5) meteorites found in and around the villages Manlun (曼伦) and MANGUI (曼桂), Menghai County (勐海县), Autonomous Dai Prefecture Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) in Yunnan (云南), China. Meteorite fall at ~21:43 (CST, UTC+08:00) on 1 June 2018
Last update: 31 August 2018 A meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (L6 / 84 g), was found by a local villager in the early morning of 2 June 2018. The meteorite hit a roof tile of…
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…
