Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

by Trigo-rodriguez, J. M.; Rietmeijer, F. J. M.; Llorca, Jordi; Janches, D.

• ISBN13: 9780387784182
• ISBN10: 0387784187
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-02
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

"This volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented at the Meteoroid 2007 conference held at the impressive CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, Spain. Researchers in meteor science and supporting fields representing more than 20 countries participated at this international conference." "The papers contained in this volume underwent the rigorous refereeing process, and they are good examples of the continuous progress being made in this research field. Technological advances in meteor and meteoroid detection, the ever-increasing sophistication of computer modeling, and the proliferation of autonomous monitoring stations continue to create new niches for exciting research on meteoroids and their parent bodies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Meteor Shower Activity, Forecasting, Dust Orbits
The IAU Meteor Shower Nomenclature Rules	p. 5
Current Status of the Photographic Meteoroid Orbits Database and a Call for Contributions to a New Version	p. 11
The Dynamics of Low-Perihelion Meteoroid Streams	p. 15
Meteor Outburst Profiles and Cometary Ejection Models	p. 27
High Inclination Meteorite Streams can Exist	p. 35
Motion of a Meteoroid Released from an Asteroid	p. 47
Searching for the Parent of the Tunguska Cosmic Body	p. 53
Orbital Evolution of Pribram and Neuschwanstein	p. 59
Meteors in the IAU Meteor Data Center on Hyperbolic Orbits	p. 67
Meteoroid Stream Searching: The Use of the Vectorial Elements	p. 73
Directional Variation of Sporadic Meteor Activity and Velocity	p. 79
Meteor Showers Originated from 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann	p. 85
The Lyrid Meteor Stream: Orbit and Structure	p. 91
Model Radiants of the Geminid Meteor Shower	p. 95
The Orionid Meteor Shower Observed Over 70 Years	p. 103
Activities of Parent Comets and Related Meteor Showers	p. 111
Search for Past Signs of October Ursae Majorids	p. 117
The P/Halley Stream: Meteor Showers on Earth, Venus and Mars	p. 125
Multi-station Video Orbits of Minor Meteor Showers	p. 133
Exceptional Fireball Activity of Orionids in 2006	p. 141
Video Observations of the 2006 Leonid Outburst	p. 151
Predictions for the Aurigid Outburst of 2007 September 1	p. 157
Characterization of the Meteoroid Spatial Flux Density during the 1999 Leonid Storm	p. 169
On the Substantial Spatial Spread of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream	p. 179
Lunar Gravitational Focusing of Meteoroid Streams and Sporadic Sources	p. 183
Comparison of Meteoroid Flux Models for Near Earth Space	p. 191
Dynamical Effects of Mars on Asteroidal Dust Particles	p. 199
Determination of the Velocity of Meteors Based on Sinodial Modulation and Frequency Analysis	p. 205
Observation Techniques and Programs
The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar Meteor Stream Catalogue	p. 209
Infrasonic Observations of Meteoroids: Preliminary Results from a Coordinated Optical-radar-infrasound Observing Campaign	p. 221
Determination of Meteoroid Orbits and Spatial Fluxes by Using High-Resolution All-Sky CCD Cameras	p. 231
The Southern Ontario All-sky Meteor Camera Network	p. 241
The IMO Virtual Meteor Observatory (VMO): Architectural Design	p. 247
A New Bolide Station at the High Tatra Mountains	p. 253
TV Meteor Observations from Modra	p. 257
The Armagh Observatory Meteor Camera Cluster: Overview and Status	p. 263
Algorithms and Software for Meteor Detection	p. 269
"Falling Star": Software for Processing of Double-Station TV Meteor Observations	p. 277
Updates to the MSFC Meteoroid Stream Model	p. 285
The NASA Lunar Impact Monitoring Program	p. 293
Algorithms for Lunar Flash Video Search, Measurement, and Archiving	p. 299
The Meteors, Meteoroids and Interplanetary Dust Program of the International Heliophysical Year 2007/9	p. 305
Meteor Orbit Determinations with Multistatic Receivers Using the MU Radar	p. 309
Physical Characteristics of Kazan Minor Showers as Determined by Correlations with the Arecibo UHF Radar	p. 315
Development of an Automatic Echo-counting Program for HROFFT Spectrograms	p. 323
Meteor-Atmosphere Interactions
What can We Learn about Atmospheric Meteor Ablation and Light Production from Laser Ablation?	p. 331
Reanalysis of the Historic AFTAC Bolide Infrasound Database	p. 337
Acoustic-Gravity Waves from Bolide Sources	p. 345
Global Detection of Infrasonic Signals from Three Large Bolides	p. 357
Radio and Meteor Science Outcomes From Comparisons of Meteor Radar Observations at AMISR Poker Flat, Sondrestrom, and Arecibo	p. 365
Estimated Visual Magnitudes of the EISCAT UHF Meteors	p. 373
Improving the Accuracy of Meteoroid Mass Estimates from Head Echo Deceleration	p. 379
Plasma and Electromagnetic Simulations of Meteor Head Echo Radar Reflections	p. 383
A New Model for the Separation of Meteoroid Fragments in the Atmosphere	p. 395
Radar Backscatter from Underdense Meteors and Diffusion Rates	p. 403
Quantitative Comparison of a New Ab Initio Micrometeor Ablation Model with an Observationally Verifiable Standard Model	p. 411
Meteoroid Parent Bodies and Impact Hazard
Meteoroids, Meteors, and the Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard	p. 417
Apophis: the Story Behind the Scenes	p. 425
What was the Volatile Composition of the Planetesimals that Formed the Earth?	p. 435
Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Properties of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Particles Collected by Stardust	p. 447
Natural Variations in Comet-Aggregate Meteoroid Compositions	p. 461
Carbon in Meteoroids: Wild 2 Dust Analyses, IDPs and Cometary Dust Analogues	p. 473
Analysis of a Low Density Meteoroid with Enhanced Sodium	p. 485
NEOCAM: The Near Earth Object Chemical Analysis Mission	p. 495
Mostly Dormant Comets and their Disintegration into Meteoroid Streams: A Review	p. 505
Large Dust Grains Around Cometary Nuclei	p. 521
Micrometeorites and Their Implications for Meteors	p. 525
March 1,2005 Daylight Fireball Over Galicia (NW of Spain) and Minho (N. Portugal)	p. 537
Mineralogy of HED Meteorites Using the Modified Gaussian Model	p. 543
Measurement of Ejecta from Normal Incident Hypervelocity Impact on Lunar Regolith Simulant	p. 549
Understanding the WMAP Results: Low-Order Multipoles and Dust in the Vicinity of the Solar System	p. 555
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