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Small bodies in the solar system are conventionally classified into asteroids and comets. However, it is recently found that a small number of objects can exhibit properties of both asteroids and comets. Some are more consistent with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Quan-Zhi Ye

We have estimated the largest meteoroids present in major meteor showers from observations conducted between 2019-2022 by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument on the GOES-R satellites. Our integrated time area products for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-10 Kasia Wisniewski , Peter Brown , Danielle Moser , Randy Longenbaugh

In the first paper of this series we examined existing methods of optical meteor trajectory estimation and developed a novel method which simultaneously uses both the geometry and the dynamics of meteors to constrain their trajectories. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Vida , Peter G. Brown , Margaret Campbell-Brown , Paul Wiegert , Peter S. Gural

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

Separating meteor showers from the sporadic meteor background is critical for the study of both showers and the sporadic complex. The linkage of meteors to meteor showers, to parent bodies, and to other meteors is done using measures of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Althea V. Moorhead

After the prediction of meteor showers in the Earth's atmosphere caused by the particles originating in the nucleus of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, we went on with the prediction of showers on the other three terrestrial planets. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Dušan Tomko , Luboš Neslušan

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

NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) produces an annual meteor shower forecast in order to help spacecraft operators assess the risk posed by meteoroid streams. Previously, this forecast focused on the International Space Station and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-16 Althea V. Moorhead , Auriane Egal , Peter G. Brown , Danielle E. Moser , William J. Cooke

Mean-motion resonances play an important role in the evolution of various meteoroid streams. Previous works have studied the effects of two-body resonances in different comets and streams. These already established two-body resonances were…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Aswin Sekhar , David Asher , Jeremie Vaubaillon

Material arriving at our solar system from the Galaxy may be detected at Earth in the form of meteors ablating in our atmosphere. Here we report on a search for interstellar meteors within the highest-quality events in the Global Meteor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Paul Wiegert , Vanessa Tran , Cole Gregg , Denis Vida , Peter Brown

NEOs come close to the Earth's orbit so that any dust ejected from them, might be seen as a meteor shower. Orbits evolve rapidly, so that a similarity of orbits at one given time is not suffcient to prove a relationship, orbital evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tadeusz J. Jopek , Iwan P. Williams

We report on an eight year survey of simultaneous optical and radar meteor detections with the goal of isolating the fraction of meteors missed by specular radars. A total of 10,503 Electron Multiplied Charge Couple Device (EMCCD) meteors…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Margaret Campbell-Brown

By using an array of high-sensitivity CCD video devices and spectrographs, the activity of meteor events from the poorly-known $\rho$-Geminid meteoroid stream has been monitored during January 2012 and 2013. As a result of this research,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jose M. Madiedo

The paper presents numerical models of mean-motion resonances detected in the Quadrantid meteoroid stream consisting of particles of mass 0.003 to 0.03 g, which helps to prove the presence of the following mean-motion resonances: the 1:9…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Georgy E. Sambarov , Anna P. Kartashova , Tatyana Yu. Galushina

Shock waves and the associated phenomena generated by strongly ablating meteoroids with sizes greater than a few millimeters in the lower transitional flow regime of the Earth's atmosphere are the least explored aspect of meteor science. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Elizabeth A. Silber , Mark Boslough , Wayne K. Hocking , Maria Gritsevich , Rodney W. Whitaker

The Geminids meteoroid stream produces one of the most intense meteor showers at Earth. It is an unusual stream in that its parent body is understood to be an asteroid, (3200) Phaethon, unlike most streams which are formed via ongoing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Wolf Z. Cukier , Jamey R. Szalay

Meteors are important phenomenon reflecting many properties of interplanetary dust particles. The study of their origin, mass distribution, and orbit evolution all require large data volume, which can only be obtained using large meteor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Z. Li , H. Zou , J. Liu , J. Ma , Q. Meng , Y. Cai , X. Zhao , X. Li , Z. Tu , B. Zhang , R. Wang , S. Wang , F. Lu

Many previous works have shown the relevance and dynamics of Jovian mean motion resonances (MMR) in various meteoroid streams. These resonant swarms are known to have produced spectacular meteor displays in the past. In this work we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Aswin Sekhar , David J. Asher

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 analyze the activity of the Northern \omega-Scorpiid meteor shower between 2010 and 2012. For this purpose we have employed an array of low-lux CCD video cameras and spectrographs deployed at different astronomical observatories in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-08 Francisco A. Espartero , José M. Madiedo