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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 ESA Meerkat Asteroid Guard: a monitoring service for imminent impactors
Charlie Drury, Francesco Gianotto, Marco Fenucci +9
We present the Meerkat Asteroid Guard, an imminent impactor warning service developed and maintained by the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC). T…
Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, François Colas +94
Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmo…
The Aegis Orbit Determination and Impact Monitoring System and services of the ESA NEOCC web portal
Marco Fenucci, Laura Faggioli, Francesco Gianotto +28
The NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) of the European Space Agency is an operational centre that, among other activities, computes the orbits of near-Earth objects and their probabil…