3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Meteor clusters: tracing meteoroid fragmentation in near-Earth space
Pavel Koten, David Äapek, Juraj Tóth +5
Meteor clusters are typically defined as groups of meteors that appear close together in both space and time. To date, only a handful of such events have been recorded instrumental…
astro-ph.EP2025
Geminids are initially cracked by atmospheric thermal stress
Tomáš Henych, JiÅà BoroviÄka, David Äapek +4
Geminids have the highest bulk density of all major meteor showers and their mechanical strength appears to depend on their mass. They are also the most active annual shower, enabl…
astro-ph.EP2025
A very young tau-Herculid meteor cluster observed during a 2022 shower outburst
Pavel Koten, David Äapek, Juraj Tóth +6
To date only very few meteor clusters have been instrumentally recorded. This means that every new detection is an important contribution to the understanding of these phenomena, w…