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The internal structure and strength of small asteroids and large meteoroids is poorly known. Observation of bright fireballs in the Earth's atmosphere can prospect meteoroid structure by studying meteoroid fragmentation during the flight.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-15 Jiří Borovička , Pavel Spurný , Lukáš Shrbený

A catalog of 824 fireballs (bright meteors), observed by a dedicated network of all-sky digital photographic cameras in central Europe in the years 2017-2018 is presented. The status of the European Fireball Network, established in 1963, is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 J. Borovicka , P. Spurny , L. Shrbeny , R. Stork , L. Kotkova , J. Fuchs , J. Keclikova , H. Zichova , J. Manek , P. Vachova , I. Macourkova , J. Svoren , H. Mucke

The ability to track a moving vehicle is of crucial importance in numerous applications. The task has often been approached by the importance sampling technique of particle filters due to its ability to model non-linear and non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Kira Kempinska , John Shawe-Taylor

Near field acoustical signals from fireballs (ranges<200 km), when detected by dense ground networks, may be used to estimate the orientation of the trajectory of a fireball (Pujol et al., 2005) as well as fragmentation locations (Kalenda…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Luke McFadden , Peter Brown , Denis Vida , Pavel Spurný

The French FRIPON (Fireball Recovery and Interplanetary Observation Network) programme relies on a video cameras network associated to radio sensors running in a radar multistatic configuration to observe fireballs and to determine…

The population of Earth-impacting meteoroids and its size-dependent orbital elements are key to understanding the origin of meteorites and informing on planetary defence efforts. Outstanding questions include the role of collisions in…

As astronomical photometric surveys continue to tile the sky repeatedly, the potential to pushdetection thresholds to fainter limits increases; however, traditional digital-tracking methods cannotachieve this efficiently beyond time scales…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-09 Nathan Golovich , Noah Lifset , Robert Armstrong , Eric Green , Michael D. Schneider , Roger Pearce

On Aug 22, 2016, a bright fireball was observed by the Desert Fireball Network in South Australia. Its pre-atmosphere orbit suggests it was temporarily captured by the Earth-Moon system before impact. A search was conducted two years after…

Meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere can be observed as meteors, thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies. We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Margonis , A. Christou , J. Oberst

Particle filters are a group of algorithms to solve inverse problems through statistical Bayesian methods when the model does not comply with the linear and Gaussian hypothesis. Particle filters are used in domains like data assimilation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Sebastian Friedemann , Kai Keller , Yen-Sen Lu , Bruno Raffin , Leonardo Bautista Gomez

Infrasound monitoring has proved to be effective in detection of the meteor generated shock waves. When combined with optical observations of meteors, this technique is also reliable for detecting centimeter-sized meteoroids that usually…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez , Elizabeth A. Silber , Maria Gritsevich , Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez

Luminous efficiency is a necessary parameter for determining meteoroid mass from optical emission. Despite this importance, it is very poorly known, with previous results varying by up to two orders of magnitude for a given speed. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Dilini Subasinghe , Margaret Campbell-Brown

The orbital distributions of dust particles in interplanetary space are inferred from several meteoroid data sets under the constraints imposed by the orbital evolution of the particles due to the planetary gravity and Poynting-Robertson…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-11 Valeri V. Dikarev , Eberhard Grün , William J. Baggaley , David P. Galligan , Markus Landgraf , Rüdiger Jehn

We investigate the observation of meteors with video cameras in stratospheric balloons, overcoming tropospheric handicaps like weather and extinction. We have studied the practical implementation of the idea, designed and tested…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 Francisco Ocaña , Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel , ORISON team , Daedalus Project

Context. Orbital similarity measures, such as the D-values, have been extensively used in meteor science to identify meteoroid streams and associate meteorite falls with near-Earth objects (NEOs). However, the chaotic nature of near-Earth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Patrick M. Shober , Ariane Courtot , Jeremie Vaubaillon

The world's meteorite collections contain a very rich picture of what the early Solar System would have been made of, however the lack of spatial context with respect to their parent population for these samples is an issue. The asteroid…

The evolutionary existence of plasma fireballs is a generic phenomenon realizable in diversified physical plasma-dominated circumstances starting from the laboratory to the astrocosmic scales of space and time. A fair understanding of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Subham Dutta , Pralay Kumar Karmakar

Fireballs (bolides) are high-energy luminous phenomena produced when meteoroids and small asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, often resulting in fragmentation or complete disintegration accompanied by significant energy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Elizabeth A. Silber , Vedant Sawal

In laboratory experiments, high speed videos are used to detect and track mm-size surface particle motions caused by a low velocity normal impact into sand. Outside the final crater radius and prior to the landing of the ejecta curtain,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Max Neiderbach , Bingcheng Suo , Esteban Wright , A. C. Quillen , Mokin Lee , Peter Miklavcic , Hesam Askari , Paul Sánchez

We use machine learning to develop a framework for classifying meteoroids based on 13 directly observed parameters from the Global Meteor Network. This method adds depth to the $K_{b}$ parameter, which uses only three parameters. We employ…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Samantha Hemmelgarn , Nicholas Moskovitz , Denis Vida