@conference{10272/9083,
year = {2013},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/9083},
abstract = {The Quadrantid meteor shower
peaks on Jan. 3-4, with its main activity confined to a
12 to 14 h window. Despite it has one of the highest
ZHR of all annual showers (above 100 meteors/hour),
it is very difficult to observe because of frequent bad
weather in early January in the northern hemisphere.
One asteroid, the near-Earth object 2003 EH1, is the
accepted parent body of the Quadrantid meteoroid
stream [1]. Several studies have revealed changes in
the orbital elements of this stream within a period of a
few thousand years [2-6]. So, the determination of
precise orbital and radiant information can be very
useful to improve our knowledge about the Quadrantids.
For this reason, in the framework of the SPanish
Meteor Network (SPMN) we focus our attention on
the activity of this stream when weather conditions are
favourable. Thus, as a result of our continuous monitoring
of meteor activity, tens of double-station Quadrantid
meteors were recorded from our observing stations
in January 2011. Among these, several fireballs
are included. For events brighter than mag. -5 our
spectral cameras, which perform a continuous spectroscopic
campaign, imaged the emission spectrum produced
during the ablation of meteoroids in the atmosphere.
We present here the preliminary analysis of one
of these bolides.},
title = {A quadrantid fireball imaged in 2011},
author = {Díez, F. and Madiedo Gil, José María and Trigo Rodríguez, Josep María and Pastor, S. and Reyes, J. A. de los},
}