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Modern Meteor Science An Interdisciplinary View
Title:
Modern Meteor Science An Interdisciplinary View
Author:
Hawkes, Robert. editor.
ISBN:
9781402050756
Physical Description:
IX, 732 p. With CD-ROM. online resource.
Contents:
Possible Meteoroid Streams Associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 -- Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? -- The Problem of Linking Minor Meteor Showers to Their Parent Bodies: Initial Considerations -- Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years -- Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The NEOSSat Mission -- Dynamical Relation of Meteorids to Comets and Asteroids -- Meteor Streams and Comets -- Meteoric Activities of the Last Millennium -- A Fine Structure of the Perseid Meteoroid Stream -- Meteoroid Streams Asociated to Comets 9P/Tempel 1 and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- The Core of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream is two Hundred Years Old -- The Meteor Flux: It Depends How You Look -- Latitudinal Variations of Diurnal Meteor Rates -- Modeling the Sporadic Meteoroid Background Cloud -- Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM): A Meteoroid Model for the Inner Solar System -- Msfc Stream Model Preliminary Results: Modeling Recent Leonid and Perseid Encounters -- Microshower Structure of the Meteor Complex -- Associations of Meteor Microshowers or as the Kazan Radar “sees” Radiants on Northern Celestial Hemisphere -- Fragmentation of Leonids in Space and a Model of Spatial Distribution of Meteoroids within the Leonid Stream -- Mass Flux of Asteroidal Origin Meteoroids on Periodic Comet Nuclei -- Interstellar Dust in the Solar System -- Development of an Advanced Dust Telescope -- A Search for Interstellar Meteoroids Using the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) -- Complex of Meteoroid Orbits with Eccentricities Near 1 and Higher -- Optical Predictions for High Geocentric Velocity Meteors -- Elemental Abundances in Leonid and Perseid Meteoroids -- Radiants of the Leonids 1999 and 2001 Obtained by LLTV Systems Using Automatic Software Tools -- Video and Photographic Spectroscopy of 1998 and 2001 Leonid Persistent Trains from 300 to 930 nm -- Altitudinal Distribution of 20 Persistent Meteor Trains: Estimates Derived from Metro Campaign Archives -- Searching for Light Curve Evidence of Meteoroid Structure and Fragmentation -- Arietid Meteor Orbits Measurements -- Meteoroid Ablation Models -- Interplanetary Dust and Carbonaceous Meteorites: Constraints on Porosity, Mineralogy and Chemistry of Meteors from Rubble-Pile Planetesimals -- Preparing for Hyperseed Mac: An Observing Campaign to Monitor the Entry of the Genesis Sample Return Capsule -- Physical Properties of Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust Particles: Clues to the Properties of the Meteors and their Parent Bodies -- Spectroscopy of a Geminid Fireball: Its Similarity to Cometary Meteoroids and the Nature of its Parent Body -- Classical Meteor Light Curve Morphology -- A Model of Single and Fragmenting Meteoroid Interaction with Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Atmosphere -- Sputtering and High Altitude Meteors -- Application of an Equilibrium Vaporization Model to the Ablation of Chondritic and Achondritic Meteoroids -- Predicting Martian and Venusian Meteor Shower Activity -- Calculation of Variable Drag and Heat-Transfer Coefficients in Meteoric Physics Equations -- Recent Advances in Bolide Entry Modeling: A Bolide Potpourri -- Fragmentation Model Analysis of En270200 Fireball -- A New Analysis of Fireball Data from the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project (MORP) -- Bolide Energy Estimates from Infrasonic Measurements -- The Modeling of Bolide Terminal Explosions -- Optical Observations of Meteors -- Meteor44 Video Meteor Photometry -- Results from the AIM-IT Meteor Tracking System -- The Development of the Spanish Fireball Network Using a New All-Sky CCD System -- Multi-Instrument Observations of Bright Meteors in the Czech Republic -- Optical Trail Width Measurements of Faint Meteors -- High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Optical Search for Evidence of Meteoroid Fragmentation -- TV Observation of the Daytime Meteor Shower; the Arietids -- Techniques for Measuring Radar Meteor Speeds -- The Velocity Distribution of Meteoroids at the Earth as Measured by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) -- The Hyperthermal Ionization and High Absolute Meteor Velocities Observed with HPLA Radars -- Power Fluctuations in Meteor Head Echoes Observed with the Eiscat VHF Radar -- Meteoroid Bulk Density Determination Using Radar Head Echo Observations -- Radar Measurements of Meteoroid Decelerations -- Radar Measurements of Macro Fragmentation in Meteoroids -- Radar Campaign to Determine the Dependence of Initial Radii of Meteor Plasma Trains on Trajectory and Orbit -- Experimental Radar Studies of Anisotropic Diffusion of High Altitude Meteor Trails -- Radar Observations of Taurid Complex Meteor Showers in 2003: Activity and Mass Distribution -- Radar Meteors Range Distribution and Some Parameters of Meteoroids: Application to ? Perseids and ? Taurids Showers -- Associations Between Asteroids and Meteoroid Streams -- Single and Multi-Station Radar Observations of the Geminid/Sextantid Meteor Stream System -- On the Future Prospects of Meteor Detections (Invited Review).
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