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High-Speed Observations of Lunar Impact Flashes
Dale P. Giancono, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Robert M. Howie +7
Lunar impact flashes provide a direct means of estimating the flux of centimetre-sized meteoroids impacting the lunar surface. However, 25-60 frames per second imaging typical of m…
Photometry of Fireballs using High Frame Rate Cameras
Dale Giancono, Hadrien Devillepoix, Robert Howie +2
Fast sampling photometry is essential for characterising fireballs and their fragmentation episodes which link to the meteoroid internal structure. Accurate measurements remain cha…
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…
Arpu Kuilpu: An H5 from the Outer Main Belt
Patrick M. Shober, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom +11
On 1 June 2019, just before 7:30 PM local time, the Desert Fireball Network detected a -9.3 magnitude fireball over South Australia near the Western Australia border. The event was…
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…
The Scientific Observation Campaign of the Hayabusa-2 Capsule Re-entry
E. K. Sansom, H. A. R. Devillepoix, M. -Y. Yamamoto +19
On 5th December 2020 at 17:28 UTC, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa-2 sample return capsule came back to the Earth. It re-entered the atmosphere over South Austral…
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…
The main asteroid belt: the primary source of debris on comet-like orbits
Patrick M. Shober, Eleanor K. Sansom, Phil A. Bland +6
Jupiter family comets contribute a significant amount of debris to near-Earth space. However, telescopic observations of these objects seem to suggest they have short physical life…
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…
Using Atmospheric Impact Data to Model Meteoroid Close Encounters
P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, P. A. Bland +6
Based on telescopic observations of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), there is predicted to be a paucity of objects at sub-kilometre sizes. However, several bright fireballs and some m…
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…
Where Did They Come From, Where Did They Go. Grazing Fireballs
P. M. Shober, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, E. K. Sansom +6
For centuries extremely-long grazing fireball displays have fascinated observers and inspired people to ponder about their origins. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) is the largest…
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…
Recreating the OSIRIS-REx Slingshot Manoeuvre from a Network of Ground-Based Sensors
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Gregory J. Madsen +20
Optical tracking systems typically trade-off between astrometric precision and field-of-view. In this work, we showcase a networked approach to optical tracking using very wide fie…
Fireball streak detection with minimal CPU processing requirements for the Desert Fireball Network data processing pipeline
Martin C. Towner, Martin Cupak, Robert M. Howie +6
The detection of fireballs streaks in astronomical imagery can be carried out by a variety of methods. The Desert Fireball Network--DFN--uses a network of cameras to track and tria…
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…
Developing a Cost-Effective Radiometer for Fireball Light Curves
Stuart R. G. Buchan, Robert M. Howie, Jonathan Paxman +1
Fireball light curves can give insight into the meteor ablation process which can be used to improve fireball trajectory and mass modelling. To this aim, the Desert Fireball Networ…
Observation of metre-scale impactors by the Desert Fireball Network
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Philip A. Bland, Eleanor K. Sansom +6
The Earth is impacted by 35-40 metre-scale objects every year. These meteoroids are the low mass end of impactors that can do damage on the ground. Despite this they are very poorl…
The Dingle Dell meteorite: a Halloween treat from the Main Belt
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom, Philip A. Bland +8
We describe the fall of the Dingle Dell (L/LL 5) meteorite near Morawa in Western Australia on October 31, 2016. The fireball was observed by six observatories of the Desert Fireba…
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…