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Twin Impact Lunar Telescope network: Lunar Impact Flash observations of the 2025 Geminids
Daniel Sheward, Marco Delbo, Chrysa Avdellidou +23
Meteoroid impacts on the Moon, observed from Earth as flashes typically lasting a few tens of milliseconds, have been monitored for three decades for determining meteoroids' size a…
Observational planning for the 2026 August 5 Falcon 9 Upper Stage lunar impact
Benjamin Fernando, Jennifer Heldmann, Bill Grey +20
On 2026 August 5, at approximately 06:35 UT, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage will impact the lunar surface near Einstein Crater. This event will occur on sunlit terrain near the easte…
The ESA Meerkat Asteroid Guard: a monitoring service for imminent impactors
Charlie Drury, Francesco Gianotto, Marco Fenucci +9
We present the Meerkat Asteroid Guard, an imminent impactor warning service developed and maintained by the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC). T…
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…
NELIOTA: New results and updated statistics after 6.5 years of lunar impact flashes monitoring
Alexios Liakos, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Emmanouil M. Xilouris +5
We present results of the NELIOTA campaign for lunar impact flashes observed with the 1.2 m Kryoneri telescope. From August 2019 to August 2023, we report 113 validated and 70 susp…
NELIOTA: First temperature measurement of lunar impact flashes
A. Z. Bonanos, C. Avdellidou, A. Liakos +8
We report the first scientific results from the NELIOTA (NEO Lunar Impacts and Optical TrAnsients) project, which has recently begun lunar monitoring observations with the 1.2-m Kr…