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Meteors carry important and indispensable information about the interplanetary environment, which can be used to understand the origin and evolution of our solar system. We have developed a Multi-station Meteor Monitoring ($\rm M^3$) system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Z. Li , H. Zou , J. Liu , J. Ma , X. Zhao , X. Li , Z. Tu , B. Zhang , R. Wang , S. Wang , Marco Xue

Estimating the meteoroid flux density at centimetre to metre sizes is notoriously difficult. Yet it is an important endeavour, as these sizes represent the transition between small meteoroids that pose a risk to spacecraft, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Konstantinos S. Servis , Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix , Eleanor K. Sansom , Thomas W. C. Stevenson

Accurate estimation of meteoroid bulk density is crucial for assessing spacecraft impact hazards from sub-millimeter to millimeter-sized meteoroids. Previous studies often used manual tuning or optimization methods to fit ablation and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Maximilian Vovk , Peter G. Brown , Denis Vida , Daeyoung Lee , Emma G. Harmos

We present a multi-instrumental, multidecadal analysis of the activity of the Eta-Aquariid and Orionid meteor showers for the purpose of constraining models of 1P/Halley's meteoroid streams. The interannual variability of the showers' peak…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 A. Egal , P. G. Brown , J. Rendtel , M. Campbell-Brown , P. Wiegert

We report observational results of the Lyrid meteor shower observed by the double station all-sky video system in the night of April 21/22, 2009 at the Astronomical and Geophysical Observatory of the Comenius University in Modra and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Juraj Tóth , Leonard Kornoš , Peter Vereš , Jiří Šilha , Dušan Kalmančok , Pavol Zigo , Jozef Világi

December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. Analysis of a high quality orbits subset of the SonotaCo video meteor database shows that the distribution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Peter Vereš , Leonard Kornoš , Juraj Tóth

Cooperation and data sharing among national networks and International Meteor Organization Video Meteor Database (IMO VMDB) resulted in European viDeo MeteOr Network Database (EDMOND). The current version of the database (EDMOND 5.0)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 R. Rudawska , P. Matlovič , J. Tóth , L. Kornoš

An unexpected intense outburst of the Draconid meteor shower was detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) on October 8, 2012. The peak flux occurred at ~16:40 UT on October 8 with a maximum of 2.4 +/- 0.3 hr-1 km-2 (appropriate to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quanzhi Ye , Paul A. Wiegert , Peter G. Brown , Margaret D. Campbell-Brown , Robert J. Weryk

We observed the predicted outburst of the Alpha Monocerotid (AMO) meteor shower on 2019 November 22 with our modernized video and photographic cameras. Due to the short duration and moderate intensity of the outburst, atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Lukáš Shrbený , Jiří Borovička , Pavel Koten , Pavel Spurný , Rostislav Štork , Kamil Hornoch , Vlastimil Vojáček

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…

Context. Comet 46P/Wirtanen is a near-Earth object (NEO) for which no associated meteor shower has ever been reported. Aims. This study is aimed at improving our understanding of why there has been no observed shower activity for this NEO…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Jeremie Vaubaillon , Qhanzhi Ye , Auriane Egal , Mikiya Sato , Danielle Moser

Meteor light curves are sometimes known to display flickering: rapid, quasi-periodic variations in brightness. This effect is generally attributed to the rotational modulation of the ablation rate, which is caused by the time-varying cross…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Salvatore Mancuso , Dario Barghini , Daniele Gardiol

This work presents numerical simulations of meteoroid streams released by comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner over the period 1850-2030. The initial methodology, based on Vaubaillon et al. (2005), has been updated and modified to account for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 A. Egal , P. Wiegert , P. G. Brown , D. E. Moser , M. Campbell-Brown , A. Moorhead , S. Ehlert , N. Moticska

Various meteor and fireball networks exist worldwide. Most data sets which include ground-based observational data of meteors are affected by biases. The larger and faster the entering meteoroid, the brighter is the produced meteor. Hence,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Esther Drolshagen , Theresa Ott , Detlef Koschny , Gerhard Drolshagen , Anna Kristiane Schmidt , Björn Poppe

We have analyzed the meteor activity associated with meteoroids of fresh dust trails of Comet 209P/LINEAR, which produced an outburst of the Camelopardalid meteor shower (IAU code #451, CAM) in May 2014. With this aim, we have employed an…

A new meteor shower $\lambda$-Sculptorids produced by the comet 46P/Wirtanen was forecast for December 12, 2023. The predicted activity was highly uncertain, but generally considered to be low. Observations in Australia, New Zealand, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 D. Vida , J. M. Scott , A. Egal , J. Vaubaillon , Q. -Z. Ye , D. Rollinson , M. Sato , D. E. Moser

Taurids are an extensive stream of particles produced by comet 2P/Encke, which can be observed mainly in October and November as a series of meteor showers rich in bright fireballs. Several near-Earth asteroids have also been linked with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-24 Pavol Matlovič , Juraj Tóth , Regina Rudawska , Leonard Kornoš

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 Virginid meteoroid streams produce a series of meteor showers active annually during February-May. A certain parent comet is not found but a related association of some showers with near-Earth asteroids was previously established and a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-26 G. I. Kokhirova , A. I. Zhonmuhammadi , U. H. Khamroev , T. J. Jopek

We report on simultaneous 30 - 60 MHz LOFAR / AARTFAAC12 radio observations and CAMS low-light video observations of +4 to -10 magnitude meteors at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on August 12/13, 2020. 204 meteor trains were imaged…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 Tammo Jan Dijkema , Cees Bassa , Mark Kuiack , Peter Jenniskens , Carl Johannink , Felix Bettonvil , Ralph Wijers , Richard Fallows