An article on meteor clusters was published in the journal Icarus
An article by an international team of authors led by Pavel Koten and David Čapek has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the journal Icarus dedicated to the Meteoroids 2025 conference, which focuses on the analysis of meteor clusters. The first part of the article provides a detailed description of two new clusters observed on April 20, 2023, and July 11, 2024, by cameras in the Hawaiian Islands. This is followed by an overview of all currently known, instrumentally recorded clusters processed using the same methodology, and initial conclusions drawn from a data sample that is still statistically small.
Paper summary can be viewed in the “What We’re Working On” section of the Astronomical Institute’s website (in Czech only).
Paper reference: P. Koten, D. Čapek, J. Tóth, J. Vaubaillon, A. Ashimbekova, S. Anghel, J. Watanabe, and T. Vörös: Meteor clusters: Tracing meteoroid fragmentation in near-Earth space, Icarus, Volume 454, id.117085
Official version of the paper on the Icarus website.
Composite images created from video records show seven meteors from the 2023 cluster (left) and sixteen meteors from the 2024 cluster (right).