Title
Search for faint meteors on the orbits of Příbram and Neuschwanstein meteorites
Date Issued
01 September 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Koten P.
Vaubaillon J.
Čapek D.
Vojáček V.
Spurný P.
Štork R.
Observatoire de Paris
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
The very next year following the fall of Neuschwanstein meteorites and discovery of their orbital similarity with the Příbram meteorite, dedicated observational campaigns aiming for the detection of faint meteors on similar orbits were started. The goal of this paper is to process all the data collected within 7. years, to analyze their atmospheric trajectories and heliocentric orbits and to investigate the possibility that they belong to the stream. The trajectories and orbits of the detected meteors were used to determine whether those meteors are members of the same shower. An orbital evolution model was applied on a certain number of cloned particles to investigate their possible connection with the meteorite stream. Statistical tests were conducted to determine if such small sample of the orbits is similar by chance or if the stream is real. It was found that from the observational as well as the theoretical point of view it is impossible to prove the existence of faint meteor shower connected with the Příbram and Neuschwanstein meteorite stream. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.
Start page
244
End page
252
Volume
239
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84903888032
Source
Icarus
ISSN of the container
00191035
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Grant No. 205/09/1302 and the institutional Project RVO:67985815. The dynamical modelling was done within the bilateral Czech and France project 7AMB13FR006. The orbital evolution computations were done at CINES supercomputer in Montpelier, France. The authors also thank to Petr Pravec for the statistical test discussion. Pavel Spurný was responsible for all the operations at Kunžak station and Rostislav Štork for the Ondřejov station. Finally we thank both referees, David Asher and Peter Brown, for valuable comments, which helped us to improve the paper.
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