Modern Meteor Science

This volume contains leading edge research and authoritative reviews in meteor science. It provides a comprehensive view of meteoroid research including the dynamics, sources and distribution of these bodies. Techniques for investigation of meteor phenomena in the book include conventional and large aperture radar systems, spacecraft detection, optical systems, spectral measurements, and laboratory based interplanetary dust particle studies.

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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).