Spanish meteor network : 2006 all-sky and video monitoring highlights

Abstract

We previously reported [1] the first steps in the development of the SPanish Meteor Network (SPMN) by using innovative low-scan all-sky CCD cameras that are reaching +2/+3 meteor limiting magnitude [1]. During 2006 new progress has been made by setting up two additional all-sky CCD stations and three video stations in order to increase our atmospheric coverage of meteor and fireball activity [2]. During 2006, we have built the first cameras with (inner) rotating shutter in order to get measurements of meteor velocities. Additionally, for those all-sky CCD cameras still working without rotating shutter we have used video cameras for obtaining meteor velocities in the monitorized common fields. As a consequence of all this effort, valuable trajectory and orbital data of meteors and fireballs is being obtained. We focus here in a description of recorded activity of cometary meteor showers also including orbital information of one of the brightest fireballs observed last year. Particularly, we describe some Earth encounters with dense cometary meteoroid streams that can be useful for identifying a likely origin of recovered Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs).