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Juraj Tóth

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Tidal disruption of NEAs - a case of Příbram

This work studies the dynamical evolution of a possible meteor stream along the orbit of the Příbram meteorite, which originated in the tidal disruption of the putative rubble-pile-like parent body during a close approach to the Earth. We assumed the disruption at the time when the ascending or descending node of the parent orbit was close to the Earth's orbit. In the last 5000 years, the Příbram orbit has crossed the Earth orbit twice. It happened about 4200 years and 3300 years ago. In both cases, we modeled the release of particles from the simplified model of rotating asteroid, and traced their individual orbital evolution to the current date. It takes several hundred years to spread released meteoroids along the entire orbit of the parent body. Even today, the stream would be relatively narrow. Considering a model parent body with physical parameters of the asteroid Itokawa, the complete disintegration of the object produced 3.8$\times10^{11}$ meteoroid particles with diameter $\geq$ 1\,cm. The meteor activity observed from the Earth is revealed and justification of follow-up observation during suggested activity of the shower in the first two weeks of April is discussed. The Earth's tidal forces would disintegrate a fraction of NEA population into smaller objects. We evaluate the upper limit of mass of disintegrated asteroids within the mean NEA lifetime and the contribution of disrupted matter to the size distribution of the NEA.

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Meteor showers of comet C/1917 F1 Mellish

December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. Analysis of a high quality orbits subset of the SonotaCo video meteor database shows that the distribution of orbital elements, geocentric velocity and also the orbital evolution of the meteors and potential parent body may imply a common origin for these meteors coming from the parent comet C/1917 F1 Mellish. This is also confirmed by the physical properties and activity of these shower meteors. An assumed release of meteoroids at the perihelion of the comet in the past and the sky-plane radiant distribution reveal that the December Monocerotid stream might be younger than the November Orionids. A meteoroid transversal component of ejection velocity at the perihelion must be larger than 100 m/s. A few authors have also associated December Canis Minorids with the comet C/1917 F1 Mellish. However, we did not find any connection.

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Search for very close approaching NEAs

A simulation of de-biased population of NEAs is presented. The numerical integration of modeled orbits reveals geometrical conditions of close approaching NEAs to the Earth. The population with the absolute magnitude up to H=28 is simulated during one year. The probability of possible discoveries of the objects in the Earth vicinity is discussed.

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Release of meteoroids from asteroids by Earth's tides

The orbital evolution of particles released from the surface of a rubble-pile body by Earth's tides during flyby within the Roche limit is studied. Test particles initially placed on the surface leave the surface and escape the parent body. Released particles remain in a relative small cloud for about 500 years and spread evenly along the orbit of the parent asteroid during next several hundred years. Their orbital elements exhibit very small dispersion in the mentioned time frame.

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