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Twin Impact Lunar Telescope network: Lunar Impact Flash observations of the 2025 Geminids
Daniel Sheward, Marco Delbo, Chrysa Avdellidou +23
Meteoroid impacts on the Moon, observed from Earth as flashes typically lasting a few tens of milliseconds, have been monitored for three decades for determining meteoroids' size a…
Observational planning for the 2026 August 5 Falcon 9 Upper Stage lunar impact
Benjamin Fernando, Jennifer Heldmann, Bill Grey +20
The paper outlines plans to observe the August 5, 2026 impact of a spent Falcon 9 upper stage on the Moon near Einstein Crater, describing how the flash and ejecta plume could be r…
The steady-state population of Earth's co-orbitals of lunar provenance
Elisa Maria Alessi, Robert Jedicke
The population of natural objects in a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth are known as Earth's co-orbitals. Main belt objects can dynamically evolve into Earth co-orbitals but ta…
Mission Analysis for the HENON CubeSat Mission to a Large Sun-Earth Distant Retrograde Orbit
S. Cicalò, E. M. Alessi, L. Provinciali +9
The HEliospheric pioNeer for sOlar and interplanetary threats defeNce (HENON) mission is a CubeSat Space Weather mission, designed to operate in a Sun-Earth Distant Retrograde Orbi…
The steady state population of Earth's minimoons of lunar provenance
Robert Jedicke, Elisa Maria Alessi, Naja Wiedner +3
This work examines the plausibility of a lunar origin of natural objects that have a negative total energy (ET) with respect to the geocenter while within 3 Earth Hill radii (RH),…