activity
20192025
most citedA Global Fireball Observatory

74 citations · 268 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

17 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

A Near-Earth Object Model Calibrated to Earth Impactors

Sophie E. Deam, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, David Nesvorný +16

The population of Earth-impacting meteoroids and its size-dependent orbital elements are key to understanding the origin of meteorites and informing on planetary defence efforts. O…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, François Colas +94

Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmo…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Perihelion history and atmospheric survival as primary drivers of the Earth`s meteorite record

Patrick M. Shober, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Jeremie Vaubaillon +7

Models predict that more than half of all impacting meteoroids should be carbonaceous, reflecting the abundance of carbon-rich asteroids in the main belt and near-Earth space. Yet…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

The Winchcombe Fireball -- that Lucky Survivor

Sarah McMullan, Denis Vida, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix +34

On February 28, 2021, a fireball dropped kg of recovered CM2 carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in South-West England near the town of Winchcombe. We reconstruct the fireb…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 1 cited

Minimoon still on the loose

Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Seamus Anderson, Martin C. Towner +9

On Aug 22, 2016, a bright fireball was observed by the Desert Fireball Network in South Australia. Its pre-atmosphere orbit suggests it was temporarily captured by the Earth-Moon s…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

Successful Recovery of an Observed Meteorite Fall Using Drones and Machine Learning

Seamus L. Anderson, Martin C. Towner, John Fairweather +6

We report the first-time recovery of a fresh meteorite fall using a drone and a machine learning algorithm. A fireball on the 1st April 2021 was observed over Western Australia by…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 20 cited

Arpu Kuilpu: An H5 from the Outer Main Belt

Patrick M. Shober, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom +11

On 1 June 2019, just before 7:30 PM local time, the Desert Fireball Network detected a -9.3 magnitude fireball over South Australia near the Western Australia border. The event was…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 24 cited

Trajectory, recovery, and orbital history of the Madura Cave meteorite

Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom, Patrick Shober +11

On the 19th June 2020 at 20:05:07 UTC, a fireball lasting 5.5 s was observed above Western Australia by three Desert Fireball Network observatories. The meteoroid entered the atmos…

astro-ph.EP2021

Taurid stream #628: a reservoir of large cometary impactors

Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Peter Jenniskens, Philip A. Bland +9

The Desert Fireball Network observed a significant outburst of fireballs belonging to the Southern Taurid Complex of meteor showers between October 27 and November 17, 2015. At the…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

The Proposed Silicate-Sulfuric Acid Process: Mineral Processing for In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)

Seamus Anderson, Eleanor Sansom, Patrick Shober +3

Volatile elements and compounds found in extra-terrestrial environments are often the target of In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) studies. Although water and hydroxide are most c…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 13 cited

The main asteroid belt: the primary source of debris on comet-like orbits

Patrick M. Shober, Eleanor K. Sansom, Phil A. Bland +6

Jupiter family comets contribute a significant amount of debris to near-Earth space. However, telescopic observations of these objects seem to suggest they have short physical life…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 11 cited

Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Meteorite Recovery

Seamus Anderson, Martin Towner, Phil Bland +11

We present a novel methodology for recovering meteorite falls observed and constrained by fireball networks, using drones and machine learning algorithms. This approach uses images…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 6 cited

Using Atmospheric Impact Data to Model Meteoroid Close Encounters

P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, P. A. Bland +6

Based on telescopic observations of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), there is predicted to be a paucity of objects at sub-kilometre sizes. However, several bright fireballs and some m…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 74 cited

A Global Fireball Observatory

H. A. R. Devillepoix, M. Cupák, P. A. Bland +46

The world's meteorite collections contain a very rich picture of what the early Solar System would have been made of, however the lack of spatial context with respect to their pare…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 7 cited

Identification of a Minimoon Fireball

P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, E. K. Sansom +6

Objects gravitationally captured by the Earth-Moon system are commonly called temporarily captured orbiters (TCOs), natural Earth satellites, or minimoons. TCOs are a crucially imp…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 16 cited

Where Did They Come From, Where Did They Go. Grazing Fireballs

P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, E. K. Sansom +6

For centuries extremely-long grazing fireball displays have fascinated observers and inspired people to ponder about their origins. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is the largest…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 39 cited

Determining fireball fates using the - criterion

Eleanor K. Sansom, Maria Gritsevich, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix +7

As fireball networks grow, the number of events observed becomes unfeasible to manage by manual efforts. Reducing and analysing big data requires automated data pipelines. Triangul…