Near Earth stream decoherence revisited: the limits of orbital similarityOPEN ACCESS
Patrick M. Shober, Ariane Courtot, Jeremie Vaubaillon Astronomy & Astrophysics, manuscript, Preprint, 28 October 2024 (October 30, 2024) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Context. Orbital similarity measures, such as the D-values, have been extensively used…
Perspectives and challenges in bolide infrasound processing and interpretation: A focused review with case studiesOPEN ACCESS
Elizabeth A. Silber Remote Sensing. 2024; 16(19):3628 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Infrasound sensing plays a critical role in the detection and analysis of bolides, offering passive, cost-effective global monitoring capabilities. Key objectives include determining the timing,…
Geophysical Observations of the 2023 September 24 OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule ReentryOPEN ACCESS
Elizabeth A. Silber, Daniel C. Bowman, Chris G. Carr, David P. Eisenberg, Brian R. Elbing, Benjamin Fernando, Milton A. Garcés, Robert Haaser, Siddharth Krishnamoorthy, Charles A. Langston, Yasuhiro Nishikawa, Jeremy Webster, Jacob F. Anderson, Stephen…
On the Nature of Electrophone Phenomena Accompanying the Passage of Meteoric Bodies through the Earth’s Atmosphere
A. D. Filonenko Solar System Research, Volume 58, pages 561–577 LINK “The paper briefly discusses hypotheses about the nature of a centuries-old mysterious phenomenon, for which there is still no clear explanation. Its essence is…
Detection of fireballs in the lightning imager dataOPEN ACCESS
Pierre Kokou Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,Published: 03 September 2024 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Meteosat Third Generation – Imager 1 satellite, launched on 13 December 2022, features the first Lightning Imager…
A comparison of fireball luminous efficiency models using acoustic records
Luke McFadden, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 August 2024 LINK “Highlights “The total energy of a fireball is commonly obtained from optical measurements with an assumed value for…
Comparing the dynamics of Jupiter-family Comets and comet-like fireballsOPEN ACCESS
P.M. Shober, G. Tancredi, J. Vaubaillon, H.A.R. Devillepoix, S. Deam, S. Anghel, E.K. Sansom, F. Colas, S. Martino Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), which originate from the Kuiper belt…
The Fireball of November 24, 1970, as the Most Probable Source of the Ischgl MeteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Maria Gritsevich, Jarmo Moilanen, Jaakko Visuri, Matthias M. M. Meier, Colin Maden, Jürgen Oberst, Dieter Heinlein, Joachim Flohrer, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Jorge Delgado-García, Christian Koeberl, Ludovic Ferrière, Franz Brandstätter, Pavel P. Povinec, Ivan Sýkora, Florian…
The optical, seismic, and infrasound signature of the March 5 2022, bolide over Central ItalyOPEN ACCESS
Marco Olivieri, Davide Piccinini, Gilberto Saccorotti, Dario Barghini, Daniele Gardiol, Nicola Alessandro Pino, Maurizio Ripepe, Giulio Betti, Giorgio Lacanna & Lorenzo Arcidiaco Scientific Reports, Volume 13, Article number: 21135Published: 30 November 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…
GOES GLM, biased bolides, and debiased distributionsOPEN ACCESS
Anthony Ozerov, Jeffrey C. Smith, Jessie L. Dotson, Randolph S. Longenbaugh, Robert L. Morris IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 October 2023 LINK Update (7 November 2023): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The large combined field…
Assessment of meteoroid pre-atmospheric diameter from brightness measurements prior to fragmentationOPEN ACCESS
Christopher O. Johnston, Eric C. Stern IcarusAvailable online 20 September 2023, 115807 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights New method developed for determining a meteoroid diameter based on the measured lightcurve. New method is made feasible by…
Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) BolideOPEN ACCESS
Abraham Loeb, Toby Adamson, Sophie Bergstrom, Richard Cloete, Shai Cohen, Kevin Conrad, Laura Domine, Hairuo Fu, Charles Hoskinson, Eugenia Hyung, Stein Jacobsen, Mike Kelly, Jason Kohn, Edwin Lard, Sebastian Lam, Frank Laukien, Jim Lem, Rob…
On the Proposed Interstellar Origin of the USG 20140108 FireballOPEN ACCESS
Peter G. Brown, Jiří Borovička Accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A critical review of the evidence for the interstellar origin for the USG 20140108 fireball is presented. Examining USG fireball velocities where…
Laboratory modeling in laser-induced plasma to estimate the pressure in bolide wakeOPEN ACCESS
A. Zakuskin, B.G. Beglaryan, T.A. Labutin A&A, Forthcoming article PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Aims. We study Fe and FeO emission in laser-induced plasma under reduced pressure to develop an approach for finding the conditions under which…
Expected Fragment Distribution from the First Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08OPEN ACCESS
Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Abraham Loeb, Amir Siraj Draft version December 5, 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The fireball of the first interstellar meteor, CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) (Siraj & Loeb 2019), was detected off the northern coast of…
Analysis of the daylight fireball of July 15, 2021, leading to a meteorite fall and find near Antonin, Poland, and a description of the recovered chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Lukáš Shrbený,Agata M. Krzesińska,Jiří Borovička,Pavel Spurný,Zbigniew Tymiński,Kryspin Kmieciak MAPS, Version of Record online: 01 December 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present the description of an observation of a fireball recorded during the sunrise…
Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017-2018. II. Analysis of orbital and physical properties of cm-sized meteoroidsOPEN ACCESS
J. Borovicka, P. Spurny and L. Shrbeny A&A, Forthcoming articleReceived: 06 June 2022 / Accepted: 06 September 2022 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK
Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017–2018. I. Description of the network, data analysis, and the catalogOPEN ACCESS
J. Borovicka, P. Spurny, L. Shrbeny, R. Stork, L. Kotkova, J. Fuchs, J. Keclikova, H. Zichova, J. Manek, P. Vachova, I. Macourkova, J. Svoren and H. Mucke Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. bolides-pap1_corr209 September 2022…
Preatmospheric Detection of a Meter-sized Earth ImpactorOPEN ACCESS
David L. Clark, Paul A. Wiegert, Peter G. Brown, Denis Vida, Aren Heinze, Larry Denneau This article has been submitted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update: (8 June 2023): The…
Meteorite and bright fireball records from CubaOPEN ACCESS
Yasmani Ceballos Izquierdo, Johanset Orihuela León, Gabriel Gonçalves Silva, Marcelo Zurita, Daniela Cardozo Mourão, Henry Delgado Manzor Mineralia Slovaca53, 2 (2021), 131 – 145 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (alternative download) “This paper provides a comprehensive catalog…
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, ChileOPEN ACCESS
Peter H. Schultz, R. Scott Harris, Sebastián Perroud, Nicolas Blanco, Andrew J. Tomlinson Geology (2021)November 02, 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Twisted and folded silicate glasses (up to 50 cm across) concentrated in certain areas across…
Infrasound signals of fireballs detected by the Geostationary Lightning MapperOPEN ACCESS
T. Ott, E. Drolshagen, D. Koschny, G. Drolshagen, C. Pilger, P. Gaebler, P. Hupe, P. Mialle, J. Vaubaillon and B. Poppe A&A 654, A98 (2021)Received 16 April 2021 / Accepted 19 July 2021 PDF (OPEN…
Infrasound detection and altitude estimation associated with the December 22, 2020 Yushu fireballOPEN ACCESS
Wei Cheng, Pengxiao Teng, Jun Lyu, Yijing Dai Geoscience Letters, Volume 8, Article number: 26 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A large bolide was reported at 23:23:33 UTC on December 22, 2020, at a…
Accurate 3D fireball trajectory and orbit calculation using the 3D-FireTOC automatic Python codeOPEN ACCESS
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Josep Maria Trigo-Rodríguez, Maria Gritsevich, Albert Rimola Under revision (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (10 April 2021): LINK “The disruption of asteroids and comets produces cm-sized meteoroids…
Determination of strewn fields for meteorite fallsOPEN ACCESS
Jarmo Moilanen, Maria Gritsevich, Esko Lyytinen Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stab586Published: 01 March 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) Supplemental Files (ZIP/DOWNLOAD) “When an object enters the atmosphere it may be detected as a…
The Manifold Of Variations: impact location of short-term impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Alessio Del Vigna, Linda Dimare, Davide Bracali Cioci PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (20 May 2021) : LINK “The interest in the problem of small asteroids observed shortly before a deep close approach or an impact…
Statistical analysis of fireballs: Seismic signature surveyOPEN ACCESS
T. Neidhart, K. Miljković, E.K. Sansom, H.A.R. Devillepoix, T. Kawamura, J.-L. Dimech, M.A. Wieczorek, P.A. Bland accepted for publication in Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Fireballs are infrequently recorded by seismic sensors…
Fireball characteristics derivable from acoustic dataOPEN ACCESS
Luke McFadden, Peter Brown, Denis Vida, Pavel Spurný PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (5 March 2021): LINK Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics “Highlights • Fragmentation and ballistic energy estimates by seismic/infrasonic data.• Ballistic trajectory and…
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…
NEMO – The NEar real-time MOnitoring system – Harvesting information online for a fireball monitoring and alert system
Theresa Ott, Esther Drolshagen, Detlef Koschny, Gerhard Drolshagen, Christoph Pilger, Pierrick Mialle, Jeremie Vaubaillon, Björn Poppe Acta AstronauticaAvailable online 25 July 2020 LINK “Highlights • NEMO is an information collection and distribution system for bright…
Julius Obsequens’s book, Liber Prodigiorum : A Roman era record of meteorite falls, fireballs, and other celestial phenomena
Annarita Franza, Giovanni Pratesi Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK “Julius Obsequens was the pseudonym of a Roman historian presumably living in the 4th century ad , whose life is shrouded in mystery. All that is…
Two Strengths of Ordinary Chondritic Meteoroids as Derived from their Atmospheric Fragmentation ModelingOPEN ACCESS
Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurný, Lukáš Shrbený Accepted for publication in AJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The internal structure and strength of small asteroids and large meteoroids is poorly known. Observation of bright fireballs in the Earth’s…
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…
A Global Fireball ObservatoryOPEN ACCESS
H. A. R. Devillepoix, M. Cupák, P. A. Bland, E. K. Sansom, M. C. Towner, R. M. Howie, B. A. D. Hartig, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, P. M. Shober, S. L. Anderson, G. K. Benedix, D. Busan,…
Physically based alternative to the PE criterion for meteoroidsOPEN ACCESS
Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez, Maria Gritsevich, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Elizabeth A. Silber PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteoroids impacting the Earth atmosphere are commonly classified using the PE criterion. This criterion was introduced to support the identification of the…
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…
A Fireball and Potentially Hazardous Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (164121) 2003 YT1
Toshihiro Kasuga,Mikiya Sato, Masayoshi Ueda, Yasunori Fujiwara, Chie Tsuchiya, and Jun-ichi Watanabe The Astronomical Journal, Volume 159, Number 2 LINK “We present a fireball detected in the night sky over Kyoto, Japan on UT 2017…
Identification of a Minimoon FireballOPEN ACCESS
P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, E. K. Sansom, H. A. R. Devillepoix, P. A. Bland, M. Cupák, M.C. Towner, R.M. Howie, B.A.D. Hartig PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK (The Astronomical Journal, Volume 158, Number 5, 14…
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…
A Case Study of the May 30th, 2017 Italian FireballOPEN ACCESS
A. Carbognani, D. Barghini, D. Gardiol, M. di Martino, G. B. Valsecchi, P. Trivero, A. Buzzoni, S. Rasetti, D. Selvestrel, C. Knapic, E. Londero, S. Zorba, C. A. Volpicelli, M. Di Carlo, J. Vaubaillon, C….
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…
Fireball streak detection with minimal CPU processing requirements for the Desert Fireball Network data processing pipelineOPEN ACCESS
Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupak, Robert M. Howie, Ben Hartig, Jonathan Paxman, Eleanor K. Sansom, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Philip A. Bland PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update: March 2020: LINK “The detection of fireballs…
Determining fireball fates using the α-β criterionOPEN ACCESS
Eleanor K. Sansom, Maria Gritsevich, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Patrick Shober, Phil A. Bland, Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupák, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (6 November 2019):…
Combination of infrasound signals and complementary data for the analysis of bright fireballs
Theresa Ott, Esther Drolshagen, Detlef Koschny, Pierrick Mialle, Christoph Pilger, Jeremie Vaubaillon, Gerhard Drolshagen, Björn Poppe Planetary and Space Science In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 10 August 2019 LINK “Highlights • Detailed analysis of…
Calibration of fish-eye lens and error estimation on fireball trajectories: application to the FRIPON networkOPEN ACCESS
S. Jeanne, F. Colas, B. Zanda, M. Birlan, J. Vaubaillon, S. Bouley, P. Vernazza, L. Jorda, J. Gattacceca, J. L. Rault, A. Carbognani, D. Gardiol, H. Lamy, D. Baratoux, C. Blanpain, A. Malgoyre, J. Lecubin1,…
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…
Analysing Meteoroid Flights Using Particle FiltersOPEN ACCESS
Eleanor K. Sansom, Mark G. Rutten, Phillip A. Bland The Astronomical Journal 153, no. 2 (2017): 87 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Fireball observations from camera networks provide position and time information along the trajectory of a…
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…
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…
Infrasound and seismic detections associated with the 7 September 2015 Bangkok fireballOPEN ACCESS
Corentin Caudron, Benoit Taisne, Anna Perttu, Milton Garcés, Elizabeth A. Silber, Pierrick Mialle Geoscience Letters December 2016, 3:26 First Online: 22 August 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “A bright fireball was reported at 01:43:35 UTC on…
An Earth-grazing fireball from the Daytime ζ-Perseid shower observed over Spain on 10 June 2012
José M. Madiedo, Francisco Espartero, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Sensi Pastor, José A. de los Reyes Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) on 2016 April 28 PDF (open access) abstract…
Orbital and Physical Characteristics of Meter-scale Impactors from Airburst Observations
P. Brown, P. Wiegert, D. Clark, E. Tagliaferri Accepted to Icarus – Nov 23, 2015 PDF (full text) LINK “We have analysed the orbits and ablation characteristics in the atmosphere of 59 earth-impacting fireballs, produced…
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…
Ciechanów fireball: the body possibly related to near earth asteroids 2010 TB54 and 2010 SX11
A. Olech, P. Żołądek, M. Wiśniewski, R. Rudawska, J. Laskowski, K. Polakowski, M. Maciejewski, T. Krzyżanowski, T. Fajfer, and Z. Tymiński MNRAS(December 11, 2015) Vol. 454 2965-2971 doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1993 First published online October 17, 2015 LINK…
A novel approach to fireball modeling: The observable and the calculated
Sansom, E. K., Bland, P., Paxman, J. and Towner, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12478 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)
