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most citedVelocity distribution of larger meteoroids and small asteroids impacting Earth

24 citations · 52 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Direct Imaging and Gradient-Based Analysis of the 12 August 2026 Partial Solar Eclipse from a Freely Rotating High-Altitude Balloon

Bjoern Poppe, Enno Gronewold, Matti Gehlen +7

We report a proof-of-concept observation of the partial solar eclipse of 12 August 2026 using a freely rotating high-altitude balloon launched from Oldenburg, northern Germany. The…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Robotic observation pipeline for small bodies in the solar system based on open-source software and commercially available telescope hardware

Tobias Hoffmann, Matti Gehlen, Thorsten Plaggenborg +8

The observation of small bodies in the Space Environment is an ongoing important task in astronomy. While nowadays new objects are mostly detected in larger sky surveys, several fo…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 24 cited

Velocity distribution of larger meteoroids and small asteroids impacting Earth

Esther Drolshagen, Theresa Ott, Detlef Koschny +3

Various meteor and fireball networks exist worldwide. Most data sets which include ground-based observational data of meteors are affected by biases. The larger and faster the ente…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 19 cited

Luminous efficiency based on FRIPON meteors

Esther Drolshagen, Theresa Ott, Detlef Koschny +36

In meteor physics the luminous efficiency is used to convert the meteor's magnitude to the corresponding meteoroid's mass. However, lack of sufficiently accurate verification m…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 6 cited

The observing campaign on the deep-space debris WT1190F as a test case for short-warning NEO impacts

Marco Micheli, Alberto Buzzoni, Detlef Koschny +13

On 2015 November 13, the small artificial object designated WT1190F entered the Earth atmosphere above the Indian Ocean offshore Sri Lanka after being discovered as a possible new…

astro-ph2006★ 2 cited

GEO debris and interplanetary dust: fluxes and charging behavior

Amara L. Graps, Simon F. Green, Neil McBride +4

In September 1996, a dust/debris detector: GORID was launched into the geostationary (GEO) region as a piggyback instrument on the Russian Express-2 telecommunications spacecraft.…