3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
A cornucopia of null results: A statistical analysis of fireballs reported to the American Meteor Society
Althea V. Moorhead
In March 2026, the American Meteor Society announced that a "surge" of large fireballs had been reported to their website in the first quarter of the year, and that these fireballs…
astro-ph.EP2026
Meteor statistics I: The distribution of instrumental magnitudes
Althea V. Moorhead, Peter G. Brown, Margaret D. Campbell-Brown +2
The distribution of meteor magnitudes is known to follow an exponential distribution, where the base of this distribution is called the population index. The distribution of observ…
astro-ph.EP2025
Modeling the meteoroid environment far from the ecliptic plane
Althea V. Moorhead, Petr Pokorný, Marcus A. Holden +1
We describe a new version (numbered 3.1) of NASA's Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM) in which we extend the model to handle locations that lie more than a few degrees in latitude o…