Determination of the 2006 Sporadic Fireball Rate from Continuous CCD Fisheye Monitoring

Details Determination of the 2006 Sporadic Fireball Rate from Continuous CCD Fisheye Monitoring Determination of the 2006 Sporadic Fireball Rate from Continuous CCD Fisheye Monitoring

Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #56.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.829

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Images from the MMT fisheye CCD all-sky camera in Arizona taken between May 2006 and April 2007 were visually inspected for bright visual fireballs. Two undergraduate observers independently scanned web-assessable archived digital movies composed of consecutive 10-second frames recording sky coordinates at opposite ends of every perceived meteor trail. Given daylight, moonlight, and inclement weather constraints, fireballs were recordable about 10 percent of the time. After critically contrasting the data sets, about 220 candidate fireballs brighter than approximately visual magnitude -4 remained, many of which were clearly associated with known meteor showers. Plots of the sporadic meteor rate over the observing period are presented.

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