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The Winchcombe Fireball -- that Lucky Survivor
Sarah McMullan, Denis Vida, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix +34
On February 28, 2021, a fireball dropped kg of recovered CM2 carbonaceous chondrite meteorites in South-West England near the town of Winchcombe. We reconstruct the fireb…
Minimoon still on the loose
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Seamus Anderson, Martin C. Towner +9
On Aug 22, 2016, a bright fireball was observed by the Desert Fireball Network in South Australia. Its pre-atmosphere orbit suggests it was temporarily captured by the Earth-Moon s…
Successful Recovery of an Observed Meteorite Fall Using Drones and Machine Learning
Seamus L. Anderson, Martin C. Towner, John Fairweather +6
We report the first-time recovery of a fresh meteorite fall using a drone and a machine learning algorithm. A fireball on the 1st April 2021 was observed over Western Australia by…
Trajectory, recovery, and orbital history of the Madura Cave meteorite
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom, Patrick Shober +11
On the 19th June 2020 at 20:05:07 UTC, a fireball lasting 5.5 s was observed above Western Australia by three Desert Fireball Network observatories. The meteoroid entered the atmos…
Has the impact flux of small and large asteroids varied through time on Mars, the Earth and the Moon?
Anthony Lagain, Mikhail Kreslavsky, David Baratoux +6
The impact flux over the last 3 Ga in the inner Solar System is commonly assumed to be constant through time. However, asteroid break-up events in the main belt may have been respo…
Taurid stream #628: a reservoir of large cometary impactors
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Peter Jenniskens, Philip A. Bland +9
The Desert Fireball Network observed a significant outburst of fireballs belonging to the Southern Taurid Complex of meteor showers between October 27 and November 17, 2015. At the…
Darkflight estimates of meteorite fall positions: issues and a case study using the Murrili meteorite fall
M. C. Towner, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, M. Cupak +7
Fireball networks are used to recover meteorites, with the context of orbits. Observations from these networks cover the bright flight, where the meteoroid is luminescent, but to r…
Statistical analysis of fireballs: Seismic signature survey
T. Neidhart, K. Miljković, E. K. Sansom +5
Fireballs are infrequently recorded by seismic sensors on the ground. If recorded, they are usually reported as one-off events. This study is the first seismic bulk analysis of the…
Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Meteorite Recovery
Seamus Anderson, Martin Towner, Phil Bland +11
We present a novel methodology for recovering meteorite falls observed and constrained by fireball networks, using drones and machine learning algorithms. This approach uses images…
Murrili meteorite's fall and recovery from Kati Thanda
E. K. Sansom, P. A. Bland, M. C. Towner +9
On the 27th of November 2015, at 10:43:45.526 UTC, a fireball was observed across South Australia by ten Desert Fireball Network observatories lasting 6.1 s. A kg meteoroi…
A Global Fireball Observatory
H. A. R. Devillepoix, M. Cupák, P. A. Bland +46
The world's meteorite collections contain a very rich picture of what the early Solar System would have been made of, however the lack of spatial context with respect to their pare…
Identification of a Minimoon Fireball
P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, E. K. Sansom +6
Objects gravitationally captured by the Earth-Moon system are commonly called temporarily captured orbiters (TCOs), natural Earth satellites, or minimoons. TCOs are a crucially imp…
A Dynamic Trajectory Fit to Multi-Sensor Fireball Observations
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Eleanor K. Sansom, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix +4
Meteorites with known orbital origins are key to our understanding of Solar System formation and the source of life on Earth. However, these pristine samples of space material are…
Determining fireball fates using the - criterion
Eleanor K. Sansom, Maria Gritsevich, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix +7
As fireball networks grow, the number of events observed becomes unfeasible to manage by manual efforts. Reducing and analysing big data requires automated data pipelines. Triangul…
Comparing Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Meteoroid Orbit Determination using Hayabusa Telemetry
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Eleanor K. Sansom, Philip A. Bland
Fireball networks establish the trajectories of meteoritic material passing through Earth's atmosphere, from which they can derive pre-entry orbits. Triangulated atmospheric trajec…
3D Meteoroid Trajectories
Eleanor K. Sansom, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Mark G. Rutten +7
Meteoroid modelling of fireball data typically uses a one dimensional model along a straight line triangulated trajectory. The assumption of a straight line trajectory has been con…
Mesoscale Modeling of Impact Compaction of Primitive Solar System Solids
Thomas M Davison, Gareth S Collins, Philip A Bland
We have developed a method for simulating the mesoscale compaction of early solar system solids in low velocity impact events, using the iSALE shock physics code. Chondrules are re…
Photographic Observations of the Hayabusa Re-entry
Jiří Borovička, Shinsuke Abe, Lukáš Shrbený +2
We analyzed photographic observations of the re-entry of the Hayabusa spacecraft and capsule over Southern Australia on June 13, 2010, 13:52 UT. Radiometric measurements of the bri…