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On The Lunar Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 PT5
Theodore Kareta, Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, Nicholas Moskovitz +2
The Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2024 PT5 is on an Earth-like orbit which remained in Earth's immediate vicinity for several months at the end of 2024. PT5's orbit is challenging to p…
Telescope-to-Fireball Characterization of Earth Impactor 2022 WJ1
Theodore Kareta, Denis Vida, Marco Micheli +10
Comparing how an asteroid appears in space to its ablation behavior during atmospheric passage and finally to the properties of associated meteorites represents the ultimate probe…
How Meteor Showers Can Guide the Search for Long Period Comets
Samantha Hemmelgarn, Nicholas Moskovitz, Stuart Pilorz +1
With orbital periods longer than 200 years, most long-period comets (LPCs) remain undiscovered until they are in-bound towards perihelion. The comets that pass close to Earth's orb…
Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations
Peter Jenniskens, Paul R. Estrada, Stuart Pilorz +42
In the late stages of accretion leading up to the formation of planetesimals, particles grew to pebbles the size of 1-mm to tens of cm. That is the same size range that dominates t…