CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 54, No.: 1, year: 2024

Author(s): Kováčová, M.; Neslušan, L.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 54, no. 1, p. 7-19.
Date: 02/2024
Title: A computer program calculating the closest approaches of asteroid to the mean orbits of meteoroid streams
Keyword(s): computer program, dynamics of meteoroid stream, main-belt asteroids, collisions between asteroids and stream meteoroids
Pages: 7 -- 19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/caosp.2024.54.1.7
NASA ADS Abstract Service: 2024CoSka..54a...7K
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Abstract: Meteoroid particles can collide with asteroids. If a meteoroid is large, it can trigger asteroid activity; an outburst of brightness occurs. When the meteoroids in a stream cross a region of interplanetary space, the flux of these meteoroids is considerably larger than that of sporadic meteoroids in the same region. Therefore, the probability of a collision is significantly larger there. To map the passages of a given main-belt asteroid through the known meteoroid streams, we created a computer program which calculates the characteristics of the close approaches of the asteroid to the mean orbits of known meteoroid streams. The public-domain program is available along with this article and on: https://github.com/neslusan/BELTCROSS2. It contains the executable static-binary code as well as the Fortran source code. In the article, we give a more detailed description of the program.