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The Golden Meteorite Fall: Fireball Trajectory, Orbit and Meteorite Characterization
P. G. Brown, P. J. A. McCausland, A. R Hildebrand +26
The Golden (British Columbia, Canada) meteorite fall occurred on Oct 4, 2021 at 0534 UT with the first recovered fragment (1.3 kg) landing on an occupied bed. The meteorite is an u…
The Hamburg Meteorite Fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit and dynamics
P. G. Brown, D. Vida, D. E. Moser +10
The Hamburg (H4) meteorite fell on January 17, 2018 at 01:08 UT approximately 10km North of Ann Arbor, Michigan. More than two dozen fragments totaling under one kilogram were reco…
Meteor shower forecasting in near-Earth space
Althea V. Moorhead, Auriane Egal, Peter G. Brown +2
NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) produces an annual meteor shower forecast in order to help spacecraft operators assess the risk posed by meteoroid streams. Previously, th…
The Draconid meteoroid stream 2018: prospects for satellite impact detection
Auriane Egal, Paul Wiegert, Peter G. Brown +3
Predictions of the 2018 Draconid activity at the Earth and the Sun-Earth L1 and L2 Lagrange points are presented. Numerical simulations of the meteoroids' ejection and evolution fr…