The global meteor network–methodology and first results

D Vida, D Šegon, PS Gural, PG Brown… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Global Meteor Network (GMN) utilizes highly sensitive low-cost CMOS
video cameras which run open-source meteor detection software on Raspberry Pi …

The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) using multimodal ground-based observatories

WA Watters, A Loeb, F Laukien, R Cloete… - Journal of …, 2023 - World Scientific
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) have resisted explanation and have received little
formal scientific attention for 75 years. A primary objective of the Galileo Project is to build an …

The Winchcombe fireball—That lucky survivor

S McMullan, D Vida, HAR Devillepoix… - … & planetary science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On February 28, 2021, a fireball dropped∼ 0.6 kg of recovered CM2 carbonaceous
chondrite meteorites in South‐West England near the town of Winchcombe. We reconstruct …

Learning about comets from the study of mass distributions and fluxes of meteoroid streams

JM Trigo-Rodríguez, J Blum - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Meteor physics can provide new clues about the size, structure, and density of cometary
disintegration products, establishing a bridge between different research fields. From meteor …

First holistic modelling of meteoroid ablation and fragmentation: A case study of the Orionids recorded by the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory

D Vida, PG Brown, M Campbell-Brown, A Egal - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 18 mm-sized Orionid meteoroids were captured in 2019 and 2020 by the Canadian
Automated Observatory's mirror tracking system. Meteor position measurements were made …

Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud

D Vida, PG Brown, HAR Devillepoix, P Wiegert… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Oort cloud is thought to be a reservoir of icy planetesimals and the source of long-period
comets (LPCs) implanted from the outer Solar System during the time of giant-planet …

A physical survey of meteoroid streams: Comparing cometary reservoirs

N Buccongello, PG Brown, D Vida, A Pinhas - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we present an optical survey of mm-sized meteoroids using the Canadian
Automated Meteor Observatory's (CAMO) mirror tracking system. The system tracks meteors …

No evidence for interstellar fireballs in the CNEOS database

M Hajdukova, G Stober, D Barghini, P Koten… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The detection of interstellar meteors, especially meteorite-dropping meteoroids,
would be transformative, as this would enable direct sampling of material from other stellar …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization dependency of transverse scattering and collisional coupling to the ambient atmosphere from meteor trails—Theory and observations

G Stober, R Weryk, D Janches, ECM Dawkins… - Planetary and Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative analyses of transverse scatter meteors to derive physically consistent solutions
of the ambipolar diffusion coefficient, electron line density, and initial trail radius have been …

Artificial meteors observed in mid-infrared range

S Rommeluère, J Vaubaillon, S Loehle… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Meteors are most often observed from the ground in the visible, most often at a distance of at
least 80–100 km between the phenomenon and the observer. Such constraints lead to …