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T1 A bright bolide produced by a meteoroid follwing a Jupiter family comet orbit
A1 Díez, F.
A1 Madiedo Gil, José María
A1 Toscano, F. M.
A1 Trigo Rodríguez, Josep María
AB One of the techniques employed bythe SPanish Meteor Network (SPMN) to monitor thenight sky is based on high-sensitivity CCD video de-vices. These have a limiting magnitude of +3/+4 with-out using any image intensifier. Our meteor networkhas increased the number of such video stations from 2in 2006 to 25 in 2011. Nowadays we perform a con-tinuous monitoring of meteor and fireball activity overSpain and neighbouring regions, which is equivalent toan area of about 500.000 km2. This expansion is beingaccompanied by a considerableeffort to develop sev-eral software packages toaccomplish different tasks,such as the automated operation of some of our sta-tions and the data reduction of the huge amount ofinformation these provide. Besides, favourableweather conditions in Spain combined with the highsensitivity of our systems give us an advantage to per-form this continuous monitoring, which has providedimportant information about meteor and fireball activ-ity. The analysis of bolides is, in fact, one of our pri-orities, as brighter ones can be potential meteorite pro-ducing events and fireballs also may provide usefulinformation about disruption episodes in their parentobjects. In this context, we have imaged on April 27,2011 a double-station sporadic fireball with an abso-lute magnitude of about -7±1. The analysis of this bo-lide is made here.
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9025
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9025
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NO Díez, F., Madiedo Gil, J.M., Toscano, F.: "A bright bolide produced by a meteoroid follwing a Jupiter family comet orbit". En: 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ( (The Woolands, Texas, march 19-23, 2012)
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RD 14 jul 2026