Open AccessAVOIDING MURPHY'S LAW ON DETECTING METEORS
Author(s) -
A. Castellón,
Alberto J. CastroTirado
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica. serie de conferencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1405-2059
DOI - 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2019.51.20
Subject(s) - meteoroid , meteor (satellite) , meteor shower , brightness , physics , astronomy , geology
It is known that when a meteoroid has been imaged by two or more stations, its atmospheric trajectory can be inferred. In addition to this, if the velocity of the meteor has been measured, then the magnitude, the photometric mass and its orbital elements can be computed. Hence, meteor detection networks have a large number of stations. Unfortunately, weak meteors are only imaged by the nearest station, since the brightness decreases with the square of the distance. On the other hand, Murphy’s law can act in the event of brilliant meteors and fireballs: “In a station it was cloudy. In another, the fireball was hidden under the horizon. A third was out of order due to an electrical power failure, and the other was under maintenance, etcetera.” Do not panic. In this work we present some methods to obtain information from a meteor seen from a single station, if it has been possible to associate it with a meteor shower. In this work, CCD images gathered bythe robotized networks of the Sociedad Malague˜na de Astronom´ıa (Aznar 2016) and the BOOTES-1 and -2 observatories have been used (Castro-Tirado et al. 2008).