Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper:

A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes

This article has been submitted for publication by Paul Wiegert, Denis Vida, David Clark, Auriane Egal, Richard Wainscoat and Robert Weryk.

Abstract: We report on a pencil-beam survey of the Taurid Swarm, a possible concentration of bodies in the Taurid meteoroid stream associated with the 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Canada-France Hawaii Telescope MegaCam observations reaching apparent magnitudes of 24.5 in the gri filter were taken over three nights. Rates of motion on the sky allowed for the quick elimination of main-belt objects from the over 1000 moving sources seen. Eight candidates with on-sky rates of motion consistent with Taurids were detected, but seven were subsequently shown to be non-Taurids (Hungarias, Marscrossers, etc). One object might be a 60 m class Taurid but not enough data was collected and its orbit remains ambiguous. Our results are consistent with no Taurid Swarm members observed, and an upper limit of fewer than 3 × 103 −3×104 objects down to H = 25.6±0.3 (diameter of 47+29 −13  m assuming a 2P/Encke-like albedo) at the 95% confidence level. While meteor observations have confirmed the Taurid Swarm’s existence at meter and smaller sizes, our results indicate that the current mass budget of the swarm at 100 m sizes does not require an outsize parent to explain it.

You can download this paper for free:  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03327   (9 pages).

 

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