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The Spanish Fireball Network: Popularizing Interplanetary Matter
2005
In order to increase in Spain the social interest in the study of interplanetary matter (asteroids, comets and meteoroids) we created the Spanish Photographic Meteor Network (SPMN) in 1997. This network has been dedicated to studying interplanetary matter with participation of researchers from three universities (Universitat Jaume I, Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat de Valencia), the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia and it is also supported by the Atmospheric Sounding Station at El Arenosillo (INTA-CEDEA) and by the Experimental Station La Mayora (EELM-CSIC). In order to promote the participation of amateurs, our homepage…
Cosmic-ray exposure ages of pallasites
2015
We analyzed cosmogenic nuclides in metal and/or silicate (primarily olivine) separated from the main-group pallasites Admire, Ahumada, Albin, Brahin, Brenham, Esquel, Finmarken, Glorieta Mountain, Huckitta, Imilac, Krasnojarsk, Marjalahti, Molong, Seymchan, South Bend, Springwater, and Thiel Mountains and from Eagle Station. The metal separates contained an olivine fraction which although small, <1 wt% in most cases, nonetheless contributes significantly to the budgets of some nuclides (e.g., up to 35% for Ne-21 and Al-26). A correction for olivine is therefore essential and was made using model calculations and/or empirical relations for the production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in iron …
Análisis espectroscópico de fragmentos cometarios y asteroidales a su entrada en la atmósfera terrestre.
2002
En la presente tesis se analiza el origen y composición de la materia interplanetaria a partir de una perspectiva nueva basada en el estudio de los fenómenos luminosos que producen estas partículas a su entrada a la atmósfera terrestre, llamados meteoros. Estas partículas, procedentes mayoritariamente de la degradación de las superficies de cometas y asteroides, cuando se hayan en órbita solar se denominan genéricamente meteoroides. Dependiendo de la geometría del encuentro con la Tierra los meteoroides alcanzan la atmósfera a velocidades comprendidas en el rango de 11 a 73 km/s. A estas velocidades a alturas de entre 120 y 70 km. la densidad atmosférica es suficiente para que las colisione…
Cavezzo, the first Italian meteorite recovered by the PRISMA fireball network. Orbit, trajectory, and strewn-field
2020
ABSTRACT Two meteorite pieces have been recovered in Italy, near the town of Cavezzo (Modena), on 2020 January 4th. The associated fireball was observed on the evening of New Year’s Day 2020 by eight all-sky cameras of the PRISMA fireball network, a partner of FRIPON. The computed trajectory had an inclination angle of approximately 68° and a velocity at infinity of 12.8 km s−1. Together with the relatively low terminal height, estimated as 21.5 km, those values were indicating the significant possibility of a meteorite dropping event, as additionally confirmed by the non-zero residual total mass. The strewn-field was computed taking into account the presence of two bright light flashes, re…