On the night of 21st April we will be treated to the maximum of the Lyrids meteor shower. Just as for the other recent astronomical events we will have to see...
Modeling the dynamical and photometric behavior of faint meteors in the Earth's atmosphere
Faint meteors observed with Super-Schmidt cameras are re-examined in order to assess whether their dynamical and photometric behavior can be described by means...
Modeling the photometric and dynamical behavior of Super-Schmidt meteors in the Earth's atmosphere
Faint meteors observed with Super-Schmidt cameras are re-examined in order to assess whether their dynamical and photometric behavior can be described by means...
Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt
Context. Most howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogues to V-type asteroids) are thought to originate from the asteroid (4) Vesta. However some...
Observation and Interpretation of Leonid Impact Flashes on the Moon in 2001
We present observations of lunar Leonid impact flashes recorded in 2001 November from Spain. Four impact flashes were detected on November 18. Another flash was...
Observation and Interpretation of Meteoroid Impact Flashes on the Moon
The first unambiguous detection of meteoroids impacting the night side of the Moon was obtained during the 1999 Leonid storm. Up to eight optical flashes were...
Observations of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm from northern Australia with the Teide imaging meteor system
We describe the Teide Imaging MEteor System (TIMES), a fully automatic experiment consisting of two fixed image-intensified video cameras which are operated...
Oort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactors
The observation of interstellar objects 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov suggests the existence of a larger population of smaller projectiles that impact our planet...