Dr. Josep Maria Trigo-Rodríguez, PhD

Astrophysicist

Meteorites, Minor Bodies and Planetary Sciences Group Leader, Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC)

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PEER-REVIEW PAPERS

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Updated list of peer-review papers. Some PDF documents are available by clicking the title (other under request)

Barnouin O., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2024) "The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos", Nature Comm., in press.

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Sort J., Ibáñez-Insa J., and Rimola A. (2024) "Mechanical Properties of Minerals in Lunar and HED Meteorites from Nanoindentation Testing: Implications for Space Mining", Meteoritics & Planetary Science, selected for front cover, in press.

Peña-Asensio E., Visuri J., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Socas-Navarro H., Gritsevich M., Siljama M., and Rimola A. (2023) "Oort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactors", Icarus 408, article id. 115844.

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Grèvol-Tomàs P., Regordosa-Avellana D., and Rimola A. (2023) "Deep machine learning for meteor monitoring: advances with transfer learning and gradient-weighted class activation mapping", Planetary & Space Science 238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2023.105802.

Karetta T., Thomas C., Jian-Yang L. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "Ejecta Evolution Following a Planned Impact into an Asteroid: The First Five Weeks" , Astrophysical J. Letters, in press.

Rommel F.L.., Braga-Ribas F., Ortiz J.L. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "A large topographic feature on the surface of the trans-Neptunian object (307261) 2002 MS4 measured from stellar occultations" , Astronomy & Astrophysics, 678, id.A167, 25 pp.

Rivkin T.S., Thomas C.A., Wong I., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "Near to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of (65803) Didymos as observed by JWST: Characterization Observations Supporting the Double Asteroid Redirection Test", The Planetary Science Journal, in press.

Roth N.X., Milam S.N., Remijan A.J., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "ALMA Observations of the DART Impact: Characterizing the Ejecta at Sub-Millimeter Wavelengths", The Planetary Science Journal, in press.

Cheng A., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos" , Nature 616, 457-460: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05878-z

Daly T., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "Successful Kinetic Impact into an Asteroid for Planetary Defense" , Nature 616, 443-447: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05810-5

Li J.-Y., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2023) "Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos", Nature 616, 452-456: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05811-4

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Corretgé-Gilart M., Rimola A., and Koschny D. (2023) "Identifying meteorite droppers among the population of bright 'sporadic' bolides imaged by the Spanish Meteor Network during the spring of 2022" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520, 5173-5182. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad102

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., and Rimola A. (2022) "Orbital characterization of superbolides observed from space: Dynamical association with near-Earth objects and identification of hyperbolic meteoroids" , The Astronomical Journal, 164, 73.

Fernández-Valenzuela, E., Morales, N., Vara-Lubiano, M. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2022) "The multi-chord stellar occultation by the Centaur Bienor on January 11, 2019" , Astronomy & Astrophysics, 669, id.A112, 14 pp.

Andrade M., et al. [including Peña-Asensio E. and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2022) "The Traspena meteorite: Heliocentric orbit, atmospheric trajectory, strewn field, and petrography of a new L5 ordinary chondrite", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518, Issue 3, 3850-3876

Statler T.S., Raducan S.D., Barnouin O.S., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2022) "After DART: Using the first full-scale test of a kinetic impactor to inform a future planetary defense mission" , The Planetary Science Journal, 3, Number 10.

Pajola M., Barnouin O.S., Lucchetti A., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2022) "Anticipated Geological Assessment of the (65803) Didymos–Dimorphos System, Target of the DART–LICIACube Mission" , The Planetary Science Journal, 3, Number 9.

Terik Daly R., Ernst C. M. , Barnouin O.S., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2022) "Shape Modeling of Dimorphos for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)" , The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 207.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., and Blum J. (2022) Learning about comets from the study of mass distributions and fluxes of meteoroid streams, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512, 2277-2289.

Anghel, S. Drolshagen E., Ott T., [including Peña-Asensio E., and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2021) "Energy signature of ton TNT-class impacts: analysis of the 22 December 2018 fireball over Western Pyrenees", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508, 5716-5733.

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Langbroek M., Rimola A., and Robles A.J. (2021) "Using fireball networks to track more frequent reentries: Falcon 9 upper stage orbit determination from video recordings", Astrodynamics 5, 347–358.

Shi, X. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2021) "GAUSS (Genesis of Asteroids and Evolution of the Solar System)- A Sample Return Mission to Ceres", Experimental Astronomy, Open Access.

Tanbakouei S., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Llorca, J., Moyano-Cambero C.E., Williams, I.P., and Rivkin A.S. (2021) "The Reflectance Spectra of CV-CK Carbonaceous chondrites from the Near Infrared to the Visible", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 507, 651-662.

Drolshagen, E., Ott, T., Koschny, D. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and E. Peña-Asensio] (2021) "Luminous efficiency of meteors derived from ablation model after assessment of its range of validity", Astronomy & Astrophysics 652, id.A84, 29 pp.

Cabedo V., Llorca J., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Rimola A. (2021) "Study of Fischer-Tropsch Type reactions on chondritic meteorites", Astronomy & Astrophysics 650, A160, 23 pp.

Burgess, K., Stroud, R., Nittler, L., and Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M.(2021) "Record of Alteration by Heavy Ices in a Cometary Clast in a Primitive Meteorite", Microsc. Microanal. 27 (Suppl 1), article ID 2268, 3 pp., doi:10.1017/S1431927621008175

Drolshagen, E., Ott, T., Koschny, D. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and E. Peña-Asensio] (2020) "Luminous efficiency based on FRIPON meteors and limitations of ablation models", Astronomy & Astrophysics 650, id.A159, 17 pp.

Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Dergham, J., Gritsevich, M., Lyytinen E., Silber, E.A. and Williams I.P.(2021) "A numerical approach to study ablation of large bolides: application to Chelyabinsk", Advances in Astronomy vol. 2021, article ID 8852772.

Peña-Asensio E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Gritsevich M., and Rimola A. (2021) "Accurate 3D fireball trajectory and orbit calculation using the 3D-FireTOC automatic Python code", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, Issue 4, 4829–4840.

Tanbakouei S., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Blum, J., Williams, I.P., and Llorca, J. (2020) Comparing the reflectivity of ungrouped carbonaceous chondrites with that of short period comets like 2P/Encke, Astronomy & Astrophysics 641, A58, 7 pp.

Colas, F.; Zanda, B.; Bouley, S., et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and E. Peña-Asensio] (2020) FRIPON: a worldwide network to track incoming meteoroids, Astronomy & Astrophysics 644, id.A53, 23 pp.

Sánchez-Lozano, J.M., Fernández-Martínez, M. Saucedo-Fernández, A.A., and Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M. (2020) Evaluation of NEA deflection techniques. A fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making analysis for planetary defense, Acta Astronautica 176, Pages 383–397.

Moreno-Ibáñez, M., Gritsevich, M., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., and Silber, E.A. (2020) Physically based alternative to the PE criterion for meteoroids Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494, Pages 316–324.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2019) The flux of meteoroids over time: meteor emission spectroscopy and the delivery of volatiles and chondritic materials to Earth. In "Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics", Colonna G., Capitelli M. and Laricchiuta A. (eds.), Institute of Physics Publishing, IOP Series in Plasma Physics, pp. 4-1/4-23. Online ISBN: 978-0-7503-1668-2.

Tanbakouei S., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Sort, J., Michel, P., Blum, J., Nakamura, T. and Williams, I. (2019) Mechanical properties of particles from the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa, Astronomy & Astrophysics 669, A119, doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935380, 5 pp.

Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Rimola, A., Tanbakouei, S., Cabedo-Soto, V., and Lee, M. R. (2019) "Accretion of water in carbonaceous chondrites: current evidence and implications for the delivery of water to early Earth", Space Science Reviews 215:18, 27 pp.

Nittler L.R., Stoud, R.M., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., De Gregorio B.T., Alexander C.M.O'D., Davidson J., Moyano-Cambero C.E., and Tanbakouei, S. (2019) "A cometary building block in a primitive asteroidal meteorite", Nature Astronomy, doi: 10.1038/s41550-019-0737-8, 8 pp.

Martínez M., A. Brearley, J. M. Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., and J. Llorca (2019) “New observations on high-pressure phases in a shock melt vein in the Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite: Insights into the shock behavior of diopside”, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54, 2845-2863.

Moreno-Ibáñez, M., Silber, E.A., Gritsevich, M., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M. (2018) "Verification of the Flow Regimes Based on High-fidelity Observations of Bright Meteors", Astrophysical Journal 863:2, art. id.174, 16 pp.

Madiedo, J.M., Zamorano, J., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Ortiz, J.L., Docobo, J.A., Izquierdo, J., Lacruz, J., Campo, P.P., Andrade, M., Pastor, S., de los Reyes, J.A., Ocaña, F., Sánchez-de Miguel, A., Pujols, P. (2018) "Analysis of the September Epsilon Perseid outburst in 2013", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480, 2501-2507.

Kohout, T., Haloda, J., Halodová, P., Meier, M. M., Maden, C., Busemann, H., Laubenstein, M., Caffee, M.W., Welten, K., Hopp, J., Trieloff, M., Mahajan, R.R., Naik, S., Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M., Moyano-Cambero, C.E., Oshtrakh, M.I., Maksimova, A.A., Chukin, A.V., Semionkin, V.A., Karabanalov, M.S., Felner, I., Petrova, E.V., Brusnitsyna, E.V., Grokhovsky, V.I., Yakovlev, G.A., Gritsevich, M., Lyytinen, E., Moilanen, J., Kruglikov, N.A., Ishchenko, A.V. (2017) "Annama H chondrite—Mineralogy, physical properties, cosmic ray exposure, and parent body history", Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 1525-1541.

Rimola A., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., and Martins, Z. (2017) "Interaction of organic compounds with chondritic silicate surfaces. Atomistic insights from quantum chemical periodic simulations", , Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 18217-18231.

Moyano-Cambero, C.E., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Benito, M.I., Alonso-Azcárate, J., Lee, M. R., Mestres, N., Martínez-Jiménez, M.; Martín-Torres, F.J., and Fraxedas, J. (2017) "Petrographic and geochemical evidence for multiphase formation of carbonates in the Martian orthopyroxenite Allan Hills 84001", Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 1030-1047.

Moreno-Ibáñez, M., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Madiedo, J.M., Vaubaillon, J., Williams, I.P., Gritsevich, M., Morillas, L.G., Blanch, E., Pujols, P., Colas, F., Dupouy, P.(2017) "Multi-instrumental observations of the 2014 Ursid meteor outburst", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 468, 2206-2213.

James, A.D., Frankland, V.L.F., Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M., Alonso-Azcárate, J., Gómez Martín, J.C., and Plane, J.M.C.(2017) "Synthesis and characterisation of analogues for interplanetary dust and meteoric smoke particles", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 162, 178-191.

Kohout, T., Haloda, J., Halodová, P., Meier, M.M.M., Maden, C., Busemann, H., Laubenstein, M., Caffee, M.W., Welten, K.C., Hopp, J., Trieloff, M., Mahajan, R.R., Naik, S., Trigo-Rodriguez, J.M., Moyano-Cambero, C.E., Oshtrakh, M.I., Maksimova, A.A., Chukin, A.V., Semionkin, V.A., Karabanalov, M.S., Felner, I., Petrova, E.V., Brusnitsyna, E.V., Grokhovsky, V.I., Yakovlev, G.A., Gritsevich, M., Lyytinen, E., Moilanen, J., Kruglikov, N.A. and Ishchenko, A.V. (2017) "Annama H chondrite—Mineralogy, physical properties, cosmic ray exposure, and parent body history", Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52, 1525-1551.

Gómez Martín, J.C.; Bones, D.L.; Carrillo-Sánchez, J.D.; James, A.D.; Trigo-Rodríguez, J.M.; Fegley, B., Jr., Plane, J.M.C. (2017) "Novel Experimental Simulations of the Atmospheric Injection of Meteoric Metals", Astrophysical Journal 836, art. id.212, 26 pp.

Moyano-Cambero C.E., Pellicer E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Williams I.P, Blum J., Michel P., Küppers M., Martínez-Jiménez M., Lloro I., and Sort J. (2017) "Nanoindenting the Chelyabinsk Meteorite to Learn about Impact Deflection Effects in asteroids", Astrophysical Journal 835, article id.157, 9 pp.

Rotelli L., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Moyano-Cambero C.E., Carota E., Botta L., Di Mauro E. and Saladino R. (2016) "The key role of meteorites in the formation of relevant prebiotic molecules in a formamide/water environment" , Nature Scientific Reports, 6:38888, DOI: 10.1038/srep38888 (selected to be open access).

Madiedo J.M., Espartero F., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Castro-Tirado A.J., Pujols P., Pastor S., de los Reyes J.A., and Rodríguez D. (2016) "Orbit and emission spectroscopy of Alpha Capricornid fireballs", Icarus 275, 193-202.

Moyano-Cambero C.E., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Llorca J., Fornasier S., Barucci M.A., and Rimola A. (2016) "A plausible link between the asteroid 21 Lutetia and CH carbonaceous chondrites" , Meteoritics & Planetary Science 51, 1795-1812.

Beitz E., Blum J., Parisi M.G., and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2016) "The collisional evolution of undifferentiated asteroids and the formation of chondritic meteoroids", Astrophysical Journal 824:12, 29 pp.

J.I. Thorpe, Parvini C. and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2015) Detection and measurement of micrometeoroids with LISA pathfinder, Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527658, 7 pp.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Lyytinen E., Gritsevich M., Moreno-Ibáñez M., Bottke W.F., Williams I., Lupovka V., Dmitriev V., Kohout T. and Grokhovsky V. (2015) Orbit and dynamic origin of the recently recovered Annama's H5 chondrite, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 449, 2119-2127.

Moreno-Ibáñez M., Gritsevich M., and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., (2015) "New methodology to determine the terminal height of a fireball", Icarus 250, 544-552.

Blum J., Gundlach B., Muhle S. and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2015) "Corrigendum to: Comets formed in solar-nebula instabilities! - An experimental and modeling attempt to relate the activity of comets to their formation process", Icarus 248, 135-136.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Zamorano J., Ana-Hernández L., Izquierdo J., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., Sánchez de Miguel A., Ocaña F., Pastor S., de los Reyes L.A., Galadí D., de Guindos E., Organero F., Fonseca F. and Cabrera-Caño J. (2014) "Trajectory, orbit and spectroscopic analysis of a bright fireball observed over Spain on April 13, 2013", Astronomy & Astrophysics 569, A104, 8 pp.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Llorca J., Weyrauch M., Bischoff A., Moyano-Cambero C.E., Keil K., Laubenstein M., Pack A., Madiedo J.M., Alonso-Azcárate J., Riebe M., Wieler R., Ott U., Tapia M. and Mestres N. (2014) "The Ardón L6 ordinary chondrite: A long hidden Spanish meteorite fall" , Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49:8, 1475-1484.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Zamorano J., Izquierdo J., Sánchez de Miguel A., Ocaña F., Ortiz J.L., Espartero F., Morillas L.G., Moreno-Ibáñez M., Urzáiz M., and Cardeñosa D., Moreno-Ibáñez M., Urzaiz M. (2014) "First orbits and emission spectra from the 2014 Camelopardalids meteoroid stream", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 445, 3309-3314.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., and Cabrera Caño J. (2014) "Bright fireballs associated with the potentially hazardous asteroid 2007LQ19", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 443, 1643-1650.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., and Cabrera Caño J. (2014) "Orbit and emission spectroscopy of Alpha Capricornid fireballs", Icarus 239, 273-280.

Blum J., Gundlach B., Muhle S. and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2014) "Comets formed in solar-nebula instabilities! - An experimental and modeling attempt to relate the activity of comets to their formation process", Icarus 235, 156-169.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Moyano-Cambero C.E., Llorca J., Fornasier S., Barucci M.A., Belskaya I., Martins Z., Rivkin A.S., Dotto E., Madiedo J.M., and Alonso-Azcárate J. (2014) "UV to far-IR reflectance spectra of carbonaceous chondrites. I. Implications for remote characterization of dark primitive asteroids targeted by sample-return missions" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 437, 227-240.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Williams I.P., Konovalova N., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., Pastor S., de los Reyes J.A., Cabrera-Caño J. and Alonso-Azcárate J. (2014) "Near Earth Object 2012XJ112 as a source of bright bolides of achondritic nature", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press.

Madiedo J.M., Ortiz J.L., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Zamorano J., Konovalova N., Castro-Tirado A.J., Ocaña F., Sánchez de Miguel A., Izquierdo J., Cabrera Caño J., and Dergham J. (2014) "Analysis of two superbolides with a cometary origin observed over the Iberian peninsula", Icarus 233, 27-35.

Madiedo J.M., Ortiz J.L., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Dergham J., Castro-Tirado A.J., Cabrera Caño J., and Pujols P. (2014) "Analysis of bright Taurid fireballs and their ability to produce meteorites", Icarus 231, 356-364.

Konovalova N.A., Madiedo J.M., and Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2013) "The Tajikistan superbolide of July 23, 2008. I. Trajectory, orbit, and preliminary fall data", Meteoritics and Planetary Science 48, 2469-2479.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Zamorano J., Ortiz J.L., Sánchez de Miguel A., Ocaña F., Izquierdo J., Castro-Tirado A.J., Morales N., Galadí D., de Guindos E., Lacruz J., Organero F., Ana-Hernández L., Fonseca F., Tapia M., Gallego F. and Cabrera-Caño J. (2013) "Analysis of a superbolide from a Damocloid observed over Spain on July 13, 2012" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 436, 3656-3662.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Castro-Tirado A.J., Ortiz J.L., and Cabrera-Caño J. (2013) "The Geminid meteoroid stream as potential meteorite dropper: a case study", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 436, 2818-2823.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., Pastor S., de los Reyes J.A., and Cabrera-Caño J. (2013) "Spectroscopy and orbital analysis of bright bolides observed over the Iberian Peninsula from 2010 to 2012" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 435, 2023-2032.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Madiedo J.M., Williams I.P., Dergham J., Cortes J., Castro-Tirado A.J., Ortiz J.L., Zamorano J., Ocaña F., Izquierdo J., Sánchez de Miguel A., Alonso-Azcárate J., Rodríguez D., Tapia M., Pujols P., Lacruz J., Pruneda F. Oliva A., Pastor Erades J., and Francisco Marín A. (2013) "The 2011 October Draconids outburst. I. Orbital elements, meteoroid fluxes and 21P/Giacobini-Zinner delivered mass to Earth", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 433, 560-570.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Konovalova N., Williams I.P., Castro-Tirado A.J., Ortiz J.L., and Cabrera-Caño J. (2013) "The 2011 October Draconids outburst. II. Meteoroid chemical abundances from fireball spectroscopy", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 433, 571-580.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Konovalova N., Ortiz J.L., Castro-Tirado A.J., Alonso-Azcárate J., Lacruz J., and Cabrera-Caño J. (2013) "Orbit, emission spectrum, and photometric analyses of two flickering sporadic fireballs", Astronomy & Astrophysics 555, A149, 8 pp.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Williams I.P., Ortiz J.L., and Cabrera J. (2013) "The Northern Chi-Orionid meteoroid stream and possible association with the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2008 XM1", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 431, 2464-2470.

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Lyyttinen E., Dergham J., Pujols P., Ortiz J.L., and Cabrera J. (2013) "On the activity of the Gamma Ursae Minorids meteoroid stream in 2010 and 2011" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 431, 1678-1685.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and F.J. Martin-Torres (2012) "Clues on the importance of comets in the origin and evolution of the atmospheres of Titan and Earth" , Planetary and Space Science 60:1, 3-9.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. (2011) "Short-lived nuclides and stellar grains preserved in primitive meteorites, and cometary matter: some reasons to promote future sample return missions" , Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Madrid, September 13 - 17, 2010, Eds.: M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. Gorgas, J. Maíz Apellániz, J. R. Pardo, and A. Gil de Paz., p. 613-620.

Barucci M.A. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2011) "MarcoPolo-R near earth asteroid sample return mission" , Experimental Astronomy, Online First, article DOI#: 10.1007/s10686-011-9231-8

Meech K.J. et al. [including Trigo-Rodríguez J.M.] (2011) "EPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 observations from a worldwide campaign" , Astrophysical Journal Letters 734, issue 1, article id. L1.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., D.A. García-Hernández, A. Sánchez, J. Lacruz, B.J.R. Davidsson, D. Rodríguez, S. Pastor, J.A. de Los Reyes (2010) "Outburst activity in comets - II. A multiband photometric monitoring of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1" , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 409, 1682-1690. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17425.x).

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, J.M. Madiedo, G. Tancredi, W.N. Edwards, A. E. Rubin, and P. Weber (2010) "The Berduc L6 chondrite fall: Meteorite characterization, trajectory, and orbital elements" , Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45, 383-393 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01029.x).

Madiedo J.M., Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Ortiz J.L., and J. Morales (2010) Robotic systems for meteor observing and Moon impact flashes detection in Spain , Advances in Astronomy, article id. 167494 (DOI: 10.1155/2010/167494).

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and J. Blum (2009) The effect of aqueous alteration and metamorphism in the survival of presolar silicate grains in chondrites, (astro-ph link) , Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 26(3), 289-296 (DOI: 10.1071/AS08070).

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., D. A. García-Hernández, M. Lugaro, A. I. Karakas, M. van Raai, P. García Lario, and A. Manchado (2009) The role of massive AGB stars in the early solar system composition , Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44:5, 627-641.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and J. Blum (2009) Tensile strength as an indicator of the degree of primitiveness of undifferentiated bodies, Planetary and Space Science 57, 243-249.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. M. Madiedo, I. Williams, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. Llorca, S. Vítek, M. Jelínek (2009) Observation of a very bright fireball and its likely link with comet C 1919 Q2 Metcalf , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 394, 569-576. DOI#10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14363.x

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Borovicka, J. Llorca, J.M. Madiedo, J. Zamorano, and J. Izquierdo (2009) Puerto Lapice eucrite fall: strewn field, physical description, probable fireball trajectory, and orbit, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44:4, 175-186.

Llorca J., I. Casanova, J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez , J.M. Madiedo, J. Roszjar, A. Bischoff, U. Ott, I. Franchi, R. Greenwood, and M. Laubenstein (2009) The Puerto Lapice eucrite, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44:4, 159-174.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, A.E. Rubin, J.N. Grossman, D.W.G. Sears, M. Naranjo, S. Bretzius, M. Tapia, and M. H. Guarin Sepulveda (2009) The Cali meteorite fall: a new H/L ordinary chondrite , Meteoritics and Planetary Science 44:4, 211-220.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. M. Madiedo, I. Williams, and A.J. Castro-Tirado (2008) The outburst of the Kappa Cygnids in 2007: clues about the catastrophic break up of a comet to produce an Earth-crossing meteoroid stream , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 392, 367-375. DOI# 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14060.x

Jenniskens, P., K. de Kleer, J. Vaubaillon, J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, J. M. Madiedo, R. Haas, C.R. Ter Kuile, K. Miskotte, M. Vandeputte, C. Johannink, P. Bus, J. Van't Leven, K. Jobse, and M. Koop (2008) Leonids 2006 observations of the tail of trails: Where is the comet fluff?. Icarus 196, 181-193.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. , E. García-Melendo, B. J.R. Davidsson, A. Sánchez, D. Rodríguez, J.Lacruz, J. A. De los Reyes and Sensi Pastor (2008) Outburst activity in comets: I. Continuous monitoring of comet 29P/ Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 , Astronomy and Astrophysics 485, 599-606.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. , G. Domínguez, M. J. Burchell, F. Hörz, and J. Llorca (2008) “Bulbous tracks arising from hypervelocity capture in aerogel”, Stardust Special Issue, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43, 23-40.

Burchell M.J., S.A.J. Fairey, P. Wozniakiewick, D.E. Brownlee, F. Hörz, A.T. Kearsley, T.H. See, P. Tsou, A. Westphal, S.F. Green, J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, and G. Domínguez (2008) “Characteristics of cometary dust tracks in Stardust aerogel and laboratory calibrations”, Stardust Special Issue, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43, 23-40.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., E. Lyytinen, D.C. Jones, J. M. Madiedo, A. Castro-Tirado, I. Williams, J. Llorca, S. Vítek, M. Jelínek, B. Troughton and F. Gálvez (2007) “Asteroid 2002NY40 as source of meteorite-dropping bolides”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 382, 1933-1939.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J.M. Madiedo, P.S. Gural, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. Llorca, J. Fabregat, S. Vítek, and P. Pujols (2008) “Determination of meteoroid orbits and spatial fluxes by using high-resolution all-sky CCD cameras”, Special Issue Meteoroids 2007, Earth Moon and Planets 102, 231-240.

Madiedo J.M., and J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez (2008) Multi-station video orbits of minor meteor showers, Special Issue Meteoroids 2007, Earth Moon and Planets 102, 133-139.

Docobo J.A., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, J. Borovicka, V.S. Tamazian, V. A. Fernandes, and J. Llorca (2008) March 1, 2005 daylight fireball over Galicia (NW of Spain) and Minho (N. Portugal), Special Issue Meteoroids 2007, Earth Moon and Planets 102, 537-542.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., and J. Llorca (2007) On the sodium overabundance in cometary meteoroids , Advances in Space Research 39, pp.517-525.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. M. Madiedo, J. Llorca, P.S. Gural, P. Pujols, and T. Tezel (2007) The 2006 Orionid outburst imaged by all-sky CCD cameras from Spain: meteoroid spatial fluxes and orbital elements, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 380, 126-132.

Rubin A.E., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, H. Huber, and J. T. Wasson (2007) Progressive aqueous alteration of CM carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 2361-2382.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.L.Ortiz, J.A. Docobo and J. Fabregat (2006) “The Spanish Fireball Network”, Astronomy & Geophysics 47:6, 26-28.

D. Brownlee, P. Tsou, et al. [authors by alphabetical order including J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez] (2006) “Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope”, SCIENCE 314, 1711-1716.

F. Hörz et al. [authors by alphabetical order including J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez] (2006) “Impact features on Stardust: Implications for comet 81P/Wild 2 dust”, SCIENCE 314, 1716-1719.

García-Hernández, P. García-Lario, B. Plez, F.D. Antona, A. Manchado and J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez (2006) “Rubidium-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars” (implications to the early solar system 87Rb/87Sr ratio), SCIENCE 314, 1751-1754.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M. and J. Llorca (2006) “Cometary meteoroids strength: clues to the structure and evolution of comets”, Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 372, 655-660.

Blum J., R. Schräpler, B.J.R. Davidson and J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez (2006) “The physics of protoplanetesimal dust agglomerates. I. Mechanical properties and relations to primitive bodies in the solar system”, Astrophysical Journal 652, 1768-1781.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Borovicka, P. Spurny, J.L. Ortiz, J.A. Docobo, A.J. Castro-Tirado and J. Llorca (2006) The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: II. Determination of atmospheric trajectory and orbit , Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, 505-517.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Vaubaillon, J. L. Ortiz, A. Castro-Tirado, J. Llorca, E. Lyytinen, M. Jelínek, A. de Ugarte Postigo, P. Santos Sanz, F. J. Aceituno Castro, A. Sánchez Caso, A. Bernal González, J. Pastor Erades and F. Ocaña (2006) Orbital elements of 2004 Perseid meteoroids perturbed by Jupiter. Earth, Moon and Planets 97, 269-278.

Ortiz J.L., F.J. Aceituno, J.A. Quesada, J. Aceituno, M. Fernández, P. Santos-Sanz, J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, J. Llorca, F.J. Martín-Torres, P. Montañés-Rodríguez, E. Pallé (2006) Detection of sporadic impact flares on the Moon. Implications for the luminous efficiency of hypervelocity impacts and derived terrestrial impact rates. Icarus 184, 319-326.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., A. Rubin, J.T. Wasson (2006) Non-nebular origin of dark mantles around chondrules and inclusions in CM chondrites . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 1271-1290.

Padma Kumari P., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, A.L. Londhe, D.B. Jadhav and H.K. Trimbake (2005) Optical observations of meteoric dust in the middle atmosphere during Leonid activity in recent years 2001-2003 over India . Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L16807, doi:10.1029/2005GL023434.

Llorca J., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, J.L. Ortiz, J.A. Docobo, J. Garcia-Guinea, A.J. Castro-Tirado, A.E. Rubin, O. Eugster, W. Edwards, M. Laubenstein and I. Casanova (2005) The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: I. Fireball energy, meteorite recovery, strewn field and petrography , Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40, 795-804.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, J. Borovicka, J. Fabregat (2004) Spectroscopy of a Geminid fireball: its similarity to cometary meteoroids and the nature of its parent body . Earth, Moon & Planets 95, 553-567.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., A. Castro-Tirado, J. Llorca, J. Fabregat, V. J. Martínez, V. Reglero, M. Jelínek, P. Kubánek, T. Mateo and A. de Ugarte Postigo (2004) The development of the Spanish Fireball Network using a new all-sky CCD system . Earth, Moon & Planets 95, 375-387.

Rubin A., J.M. Trigo-Rodríguez, T. Kunihiro, G.W. Kallemeyn and J.T. Wasson (2005) Carbon-rich chondritic clast PV1 from the Plainview H-chondrite regolith breccia: formation from H3 chondrite material by possible cometary impact, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 13, pp.3419-3430.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., H. Betlem and E. Lyytinen (2005) Leonid meteoroid orbits perturbed by collisions with interplanetary dust, The Astrophysical Journal 621, pp.1146-1152.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., M.J. Lopez and J.L. Ortiz (2004) OH and O2 airglow emissions during the 1998 Leonid outburst and the 2002 Leonid storm , Earth, Moon & Planets, 93, pp.191-201.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, E. Lyttinen, J.L. Ortiz, A. Sanchez-Caso, C. Pineda and S. Torrell (2004) 2002 Leonid storm fluxes and related orbital elements , Icarus 171-1, 219-228.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca and J. Fabregat (2004) Chemical abundances determined from meteor spectra: II. Evidence for enlarged sodium abundances in meteoroids, Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 348, pp.802-810.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca, J. Borovicka and J. Fabregat (2003) Chemical abundances determined from meteor spectra: I. Ratios of the main chemical elements, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38, n. 8 (August 2003), pp.1283-1294.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Llorca and J. Fabregat (2002) On the origin of the 1999 Leonid storm as deduced from photographic observations, Earth, Moon & Planets, 91-2, pp.107-119.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., J. Fabregat y J. Llorca, (2001) Leonid fluxes: 1994-1998 activity patterns, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 36, n. 12 (dic. 2001), pp.1597-1604.

Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., (2000) The 1997 Leonids outburst, Astronomy & Astrophysics 355, pp.1160-1163.

Trigo-Rodriguez J.M., A. Sánchez-Lavega, J.M. Gómez, J. Lecacheux, F. Colas and I. Miyazaki, (2000), The 90 day oscillations of Jupiter Great Red Spot revisited , Planetary and Space Science vol. 48, pp.331-339.


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