RT Journal Article
T1 An Earth-grazing fireball from the Daytime ζ -Perseid shower observed over Spain on 2012 June 10
A1 Madiedo Gil, José María
A1 Espartero, F.
A1 Castro Tirado, Alberto J.
A1 Pastor, S.
A1 Reyes, J. A. de los
AB On 2012 June 10, an Earth-grazer meteor which lasted over 17 s with an absolute magnitude of -4.0 ± 0.5 was observed over Spain. This work focuses on the analysis of this rare event which is, to our knowledge, the faintest Earth-grazing meteor reported in the scientific literature, but also the first one belonging to a meteor shower. Thus, the orbital parameters show that the parent meteoroid belonged to the Daytime ζ -Perseid meteoroid stream. According to our calculations, the meteor was produced by a meteoroid with an initial mass ranging between 115 and 1.5 kg. During its encounter with Earth, the particle travelled about 510 km in the atmosphere. Around 260 g were destroyed in the atmosphere during the luminous phase of the event as a consequence of the ablation process. The modified orbit of the remaining material, which left our planet with a fusion crust, is also calculated. © 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal Astronomical Society.
PB Royal Astronomical Society
SN 0035-8711
SN 1365-2966 (electrónico)
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/14857
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/14857
LA eng
NO Madiedo Gil, J. M., Espartero, F., Castro Tirado, A. J., Pastor, S., Reyes, J. A. (2016). An Earth-grazing fireball from the Daytime ζ-Perseid shower observed over Spain on 2012 June 10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 917-922. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1020
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026