5 papers
Shock wave formation in the thermosphere by an earthgrazing fireball: Empirical evidence for volatile-enhanced hydrodynamic shielding
Elizabeth A. Silber, Denis Vida, Miro Ronac Giannone +7
Hydrodynamic shielding is a theoretically well-established but observationally elusive and experimentally difficult-to-replicate phenomenon with implications that extend far beyond…
Correcting radar meteor fluxes for observing biases
Margaret Campbell-Brown
We report on an eight year survey of simultaneous optical and radar meteor detections with the goal of isolating the fraction of meteors missed by specular radars. A total of 10,50…
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…
Model Predictions for the 2025 October Draconid Outburst
Auriane Egal, Paul Wiegert, Danielle E. Moser +2
The October Draconid meteor shower, produced by comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, is notorious for rare but intense outbursts, some exceeding rates of about 10 000 meteors per hour. In 2…
CAMO-S: A meteor-tracking spectrograph at the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory
Michael Mazur, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Peter Brown +3
The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory (CAMO) mirror tracking system has been in operation since 2009 and has, to date, produced more than 20,000 two-station meteor observations…