Modern Meteor Science (eBook)

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).