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Meteor clusters are typically defined as groups of meteors that appear close together in both space and time. To date, only a handful of such events have been recorded instrumentally and analysed in detail. In many documented cases, thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Pavel Koten , David Čapek , Juraj Tóth , Jeremie Vaubaillon , Aisha Ashimbekova , Simon Anghel , Junichi Watanabe , Tomáš Vörös

To date only very few meteor clusters have been instrumentally recorded. This means that every new detection is an important contribution to the understanding of these phenomena, which are thought to be evidence of the meteoroid…

Context. The existence of meteor clusters has long since been a subject of speculation and so far only seven events have been reported, among which two involve less than five meteors, and three were seen during the Leonid storms. Aims. The…

We present a new method to detect meteor showers using the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise algorithm (DBSCAN; Ester et al. 1996). DBSCAN is a modern cluster detection algorithm that is well suited to the problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Glenn Sugar , Althea Moorhead , Peter Brown , Bill Cooke

Every moment, countless meteoroids enter our atmosphere unseen. The detection and measurement of meteors offer the unique opportunity to gain insights into the composition of our solar systems' celestial bodies. Researchers, therefore,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Rabea Sennlaub , Martin Hofmann , Mike Hankey , Mario Ennes , Thomas Müller , Peter Kroll , Patrick Mäder

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

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

In meteor science, the identification of meteor showers is a crucial and complex problem. The most common method is to perform a systematic search of a database of observed orbits using an orbit dissimilarity criterion (D-criterion) and an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ariane Courtot , Patrick Shober , Jérémie Vaubaillon

A meteor outburst consisting of at least 22 meteors above the Baltic sea and southern Scandinavia that occurred on 30 October 2022 was recorded using multiple cameras. A bright fireball was followed by fainter meteors over a 10 second…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Pavel Koten , David Čapek , Steinar Midtskogen , Lukáš Shrbený , Pavel Spurný , Mike Hankey

The European viDeo MeteOr Network Database (EDMOND) is a database of video meteor orbits resulting from cooperation and data sharing among several European national networks and the International Meteor Organization Video Meteor Network,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-19 L. Kornoš , P. Matlovič , R. Rudawska , J. Tóth , M. Hajduková , J. Koukal , R. Piffl

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

A cluster analysis was applied to the combined meteoroid orbit database derived from low-light level video observations by the SonotaCo consortium in Japan (64,650 meteors observed between 2007 and 2009) and by the Cameras for All-sky…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Regina Rudawska , Peter Jenniskens

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

Meteor showers on the Earth occur at well known times, and are associated with the decay of comets or other minor bodies whose orbital paths pass close to the Earth's trajectory. On the surface, determining the closest proximity of two…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shane L. Larson

We investigated 634 crater clusters on Mars detected between 2007 and 2021, which represent more than half of all impacts discovered in this period. Crater clusters form when meteoroids in the 10 kg to 10 ton mass range break-up in Mars'…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 T. Neidhart , E. K. Sansom , K. Miljković , G. S. Collins , J. Eschenfelder , I. J. Daubar

Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the number of automated camera networks that monitor the sky for fireballs. One of the goals of these networks is to provide the necessary information for linking meteorites to their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-20 Mikael Granvik , Peter Brown

This article presents a new tool for the automatic detection of meteors. Fast Meteor Detection Toolbox (FMDT) is able to detect meteor sightings by analyzing videos acquired by cameras onboard weather balloons or within airplane with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Clara Ciocan , Mathuran Kandeepan , Adrien Cassagne , Jeremie Vaubaillon , Fabian Zander , Lionel Lacassagne

Most stars do not form in isolation but as part of a cluster comprising anywhere between a few dozen to several million stars with stellar densities ranging from 0.01 to several 10$^5$ \Msun pc$^{-3}$. The majority of these clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pfalzner

Globular clusters are large and dense agglomerate of stars. At variance with smaller clusters of stars, they exhibit signs of some chemical evolution. At least for this reason, they are intermediate between open clusters and massive objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Gratton , Angela Bragaglia , Eugenio Carretta , Valentina D'Orazi , Sara Lucatello , Antonio Sollima

The Global Meteor Network (GMN) utilizes highly sensitive low-cost CMOS video cameras which run open-source meteor detection software on Raspberry Pi computers. Currently, over 450 GMN cameras in 30 countries are deployed. The main goal of…

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