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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…
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…
Darkflight estimates of meteorite fall positions: issues and a case study using the Murrili meteorite fall
M. C. Towner, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, M. Cupak +7
Fireball networks are used to recover meteorites, with the context of orbits. Observations from these networks cover the bright flight, where the meteoroid is luminescent, but to r…
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…
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…
Murrili meteorite's fall and recovery from Kati Thanda
E. K. Sansom, P. A. Bland, M. C. Towner +9
On the 27th of November 2015, at 10:43:45.526 UTC, a fireball was observed across South Australia by ten Desert Fireball Network observatories lasting 6.1 s. A kg meteoroi…
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…
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…
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…
Recreating the OSIRIS-REx Slingshot Manoeuvre from a Network of Ground-Based Sensors
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Gregory J. Madsen +20
Optical tracking systems typically trade-off between astrometric precision and field-of-view. In this work, we showcase a networked approach to optical tracking using very wide fie…
Fireball streak detection with minimal CPU processing requirements for the Desert Fireball Network data processing pipeline
Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupak, Robert M. Howie +6
The detection of fireballs streaks in astronomical imagery can be carried out by a variety of methods. The Desert Fireball Network--DFN--uses a network of cameras to track and tria…
3D Meteoroid Trajectories
Eleanor K. Sansom, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Mark G. Rutten +7
Meteoroid modelling of fireball data typically uses a one dimensional model along a straight line triangulated trajectory. The assumption of a straight line trajectory has been con…