Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5488011 Planetary and Space Science 2017 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

•A meteor spectroscopy survey called SMART is described.•Some hardware improvements to record meteor spectra are presented.•The emission spectrum of 4 events are discussed.•Their orbital elements and atmospheric trajectory are also calculated.

This work analyzes a meteor spectroscopy survey called SMART (Spectroscopy of Meteoroids in the Atmosphere by means of Robotic Technologies), which is being conducted since 2006. In total, 55 spectrographs have been deployed at 10 different locations in Spain with the aim to obtain information about the chemical nature of meteoroids ablating in the atmosphere. The main improvements in the hardware and the software developed in the framework of this project are described, and some results obtained by these automatic devices are also discussed.

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