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Bangs and Meteors from the Quiet Comet 15P/Finlay
Quan-Zhi Ye, Peter G. Brown, Charles Bell +3
Jupiter-family comet 15P/Finlay has been reportedly quiet in activity for over a century but has harbored two outbursts during its 2014/2015 perihelion passage. Here we present an…
When Comets Get Old: A Synthesis of Comet and Meteor Observations of the Low Activity Comet 209P/LINEAR
Quan-Zhi Ye, Man-To Hui, Peter G. Brown +4
It is speculated that some weakly active comets may be transitional objects between active and dormant comets. These objects are at a unique stage of the evolution of cometary nucl…
On the age and formation mechanism of the core of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream
Abedin Abedin, Pavel Spurny, Paul Wiegert +3
The Quadrantid meteor shower is among the strongest annual meteor showers, and has drawn the attention of scientists for several decades. The stream is unusual, among others, for s…
Small Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites
Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurný, Peter Brown
Small asteroids intersecting Earth's orbit can deliver extraterrestrial rocks to the Earth, called meteorites. This process is accompanied by a luminous phenomena in the atmosphere…