The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system

AJ King, L Daly, J Rowe, KH Joy, RC Greenwood… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Direct links between carbonaceous chondrites and their parent bodies in the solar system
are rare. The Winchcombe meteorite is the most accurately recorded carbonaceous …

The impact catastrophism and Alvarez theory of mass extinctions in a retrospective, perspective and prospective: towards the Phanerozoic impact event stratigraphy

G Racki, C Koeberl - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite several, sometimes prominent propagators, meteorite impact research had a long
period of peripheral status until the 1980s. Since then there has been an intensive search for …

Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017-2018. I. Description of the network, data reduction procedures, and the …

J Borovicka, P Spurny, L Shrbeny, R Stork… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
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. The status of …

The Winchcombe fireball—That lucky survivor

S McMullan, D Vida, HAR Devillepoix… - … & planetary science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On February 28, 2021, a fireball dropped∼ 0.6 kg of recovered CM2 carbonaceous
chondrite meteorites in South‐West England near the town of Winchcombe. We reconstruct …

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 centimeter-sized …

J Borovička, P Spurný, L Shrbený - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
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 …

How long-lived grains dominate the shape of the Zodiacal Cloud

P Pokorný, AV Moorhead, MJ Kuchner… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Grain–grain collisions shape the three-dimensional size and velocity distribution of the inner
Zodiacal Cloud and the impact rates of dust on inner planets, yet they remain the least …

Comparing the dynamics of Jupiter-family Comets and comet-like fireballs

PM Shober, G Tancredi, J Vaubaillon… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), which originate from the Kuiper belt and scattered
disk, exhibit low-inclination and chaotic trajectories due to close encounters with Jupiter …

Near-Earth stream decoherence revisited: the limits of orbital similarity

PM Shober, A Courtot, J Vaubaillon - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2025 - aanda.org
Context. Orbital similarity measures, such as the D values, have been extensively used in
meteor science to identify meteoroid streams and associate meteorite falls with near-Earth …

Comet fragmentation as a source of the zodiacal cloud

JK Rigley, MC Wyatt - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Models of the zodiacal cloud's thermal emission and sporadic meteoroids suggest Jupiter-
family comets (JFCs) as the dominant source of interplanetary dust. However, comet …

Arpu Kuilpu: An H5 from the outer main belt

PM Shober, HAR Devillepoix… - … & Planetary Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On June 1, 2019, just before 7: 30 pm local time, the Desert Fireball Network (DFN)
detected a− 9.3 magnitude fireball over South Australia near the Western Australia border …