The Golden meteorite fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit, and meteorite characterization [PDF]
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2023 The Golden (British Columbia, Canada) meteorite fall occurred on October 4, 2021 at 0534 UT with the first recovered fragment (1.3 kg) landing on an occupied bed.
P. Brown +28 more
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X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phase [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Novae are caused by runaway thermonuclear burning in the hydrogen-rich envelopes of accreting white dwarfs, which leads to a rapid expansion of the envelope and the ejection of most of its mass1,2. Theory has predicted the existence of a ‘fireball’ phase
O. König +19 more
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Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017--2018. I. Description of the network, data analysis, and the catalog [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 A catalog of 824 fireballs (bright meteors), observed by a dedicated network of all-sky digital photographic cameras in central Europe in the years 2017-2018 is presented.
J. Borovička +12 more
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Expanding Fireball in Magnetar Bursts and Fast Radio Bursts [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 A fireball of radiation plasma created near the surface of a neutron star (NS) expands under its own pressure along magnetic field lines, and produces photon emission and relativistic matter outflow.
Tomoki Wada, K. Ioka
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Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017-2018. II. Analysis of orbital and physical properties of cm-sized meteoroids [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 Meteoroids impacting the Earth on a daily basis are fragments of asteroids and comets. By studying fireballs produced during their disintegration in the atmosphere, we can gain information about their source regions and the properties of their parent ...
J. Borovička, P. Spurný, L. Shrbený
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The Colour Analysis of Meteors Using the Desert Fireball Network [PDF]
, 2023 Meteors have long been studied to determine their origins, whether it be the initial curiosity of ‘What is this bright light streaking across the sky?’, or where these chunks of celestial rocks come from in our Solar system.
Johnson, Christopher
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Accurate 3D fireball trajectory and orbit calculation using the 3D-firetoc automatic Python code [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 The disruption of asteroids and comets produces cm-sized meteoroids that end up impacting the Earth’s atmosphere and producing bright fireballs that might have associated shock waves or, in geometrically favourable occasions excavate craters that put ...
E. Peña‐Asensio +3 more
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Fireball characteristics derivable from acoustic data [PDF]
, 2021 Near field acoustical signals from fireballs (ranges 200 km), when detected by dense ground networks, may be used to estimate the orientation of the trajectory of a fireball (Pujol et al., 2005) as well as fragmentation locations (Kalenda et al., 2014 ...
L. McFadden +3 more
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2022 We present the description of an observation of a fireball recorded during the sunrise on July 15, 2021. Atmospheric trajectory, impact area, and heliocentric orbit were determined on the basis of three instrumental video records.
L. Shrbený +5 more
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Dissecting the Energy Budget of a Gamma-Ray Burst Fireball [PDF]
, 2021 The jet composition and radiative efficiency of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are poorly constrained from the data. If the jet composition is matter-dominated (i.e., a fireball), the GRB prompt emission spectra would include a dominant thermal component ...
Bing Zhang, Yu Wang, Liang Li
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