Astrophysical: Meteors

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    Luminous Efficiency in Hypervelocity Impacts from the 1999 Lunar Leonids
    An analysis of the optical flashes produced by Leonid meteoroids impacting the Moon in 1999 November is carried out in order to estimate the fraction of kinetic...
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    Lyrids 2020: wishes through the window
    On the night of 21st April we will be treated to the maximum of the Lyrids meteor shower. Just as for the other recent astronomical events we will have to see...
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    Meteor studies in the framework of the JEM-EUSO program
    We summarize the state of the art of a program of UV observations from space of meteor phenomena, a secondary objective of the JEM-EUSO international...
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    Modeling the photometric and dynamical behavior of Super-Schmidt meteors in the Earth's atmosphere
    Faint meteors observed with Super-Schmidt cameras are re-examined in order to assess whether their dynamical and photometric behavior can be described by means...
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    Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt
    Context. Most howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogues to V-type asteroids) are thought to originate from the asteroid (4) Vesta. However some...
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    Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt (Corrigendum)
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    Observation and Interpretation of Leonid Impact Flashes on the Moon in 2001
    We present observations of lunar Leonid impact flashes recorded in 2001 November from Spain. Four impact flashes were detected on November 18. Another flash was...
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    Observation and Interpretation of Meteoroid Impact Flashes on the Moon
    The first unambiguous detection of meteoroids impacting the night side of the Moon was obtained during the 1999 Leonid storm. Up to eight optical flashes were...
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    Observations of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm from northern Australia with the Teide imaging meteor system
    We describe the Teide Imaging MEteor System (TIMES), a fully automatic experiment consisting of two fixed image-intensified video cameras which are operated...