Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science

Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 9
The IAU Meteor Shower Nomenclature Rules......Page 13
Current Status of the Photographic Meteoroid Orbits Database and a Call for Contributions to a New Version......Page 18
The Dynamics of Low-Perihelion Meteoroid Streams......Page 22
Meteor Outburst Profiles and Cometary Ejection Models......Page 34
High Inclination Meteorite Streams can Exist......Page 41
Motion of a Meteoroid Released from an Asteroid......Page 53
Searching for the Parent of the Tunguska Cosmic Body......Page 58
Orbital Evolution of Příbram and Neuschwanstein......Page 64
Meteors in the IAU Meteor Data Center on Hyperbolic Orbits......Page 71
Meteoroid Stream Searching: The Use of the Vectorial Elements......Page 76
Directional Variation of Sporadic Meteor Activity and Velocity......Page 82
Meteor Showers Originated from 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann......Page 88
The Lyrid Meteor Stream: Orbit and Structure......Page 93
Model Radiants of the Geminid Meteor Shower......Page 97
The Orionid Meteor Shower Observed Over 70 Years......Page 105
Activities of Parent Comets and Related Meteor Showers......Page 113
Search for Past Signs of October Ursae Majorids......Page 119
The P/Halley Stream: Meteor Showers on Earth, Venus and Mars......Page 126
Multi-station Video Orbits of Minor Meteor Showers......Page 133
Exceptional Fireball Activity of Orionids in 2006......Page 140
Video Observations of the 2006 Leonid Outburst......Page 150
Predictions for the Aurigid Outburst of 2007 September 1......Page 156
Characterization of the Meteoroid Spatial Flux Density during the 1999 Leonid Storm......Page 167
On the Substantial Spatial Spread of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream......Page 176
Lunar Gravitational Focusing of Meteoroid Streams and Sporadic Sources......Page 180
Comparison of Meteoroid Flux Models for Near Earth Space......Page 187
Dynamical Effects of Mars on Asteroidal Dust Particles......Page 194
Determination of the Velocity of Meteors Based on Sinodial Modulation and Frequency Analysis......Page 199
The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar Meteor Stream Catalogue......Page 203
Infrasonic Observations of Meteoroids: Preliminary Results from a Coordinated Optical-radar-infrasound Observing Campaign......Page 214
Determination of Meteoroid Orbits and Spatial Fluxes by Using High-ResolutionAll-Sky CCD Cameras......Page 223
The Southern Ontario All-sky Meteor Camera Network......Page 233
The IMO Virtual Meteor Observatory (VMO): Architectural Design......Page 239
A New Bolide Station at the High Tatra Mountains......Page 245
TV Meteor Observations from Modra......Page 249
The Armagh Observatory Meteor Camera Cluster: Overview and Status......Page 254
Algorithms and Software for Meteor Detection......Page 259
\"Falling Star\": Software for Processing of Double-Station TV Meteor Observations......Page 266
Updates to the MSFC Meteoroid Stream Model......Page 273
The NASA Lunar Impact Monitoring Program......Page 280
Algorithms for Lunar Flash Video Search, Measurement, and Archiving......Page 286
The Meteors, Meteoroids and Interplanetary Dust Program of the International Heliophysical Year 2007/9......Page 291
Meteor Orbit Determinations with Multistatic Receivers Using the MU Radar......Page 294
Physical Characteristics of Kazan Minor Showers as Determined by Correlations with the Arecibo UHF Radar......Page 300
Development of an Automatic Echo-counting Program for HROFFT Spectrograms......Page 308
What can We Learn about Atmospheric Meteor Ablation and Light Production from Laser Ablation?......Page 315
Reanalysis of the Historic AFTAC Bolide Infrasound Database......Page 321
Acoustic-Gravity Waves from Bolide Sources......Page 329
Global Detection of Infrasonic Signals from Three Large Bolides......Page 341
Radio and Meteor Science Outcomes From Comparisons of Meteor Radar Observations at AMISR Poker Flat, Sondrestrom, and Arecibo......Page 348
Estimated Visual Magnitudes of the EISCAT UHF Meteors......Page 356
Improving the Accuracy of Meteoroid Mass Estimates from Head Echo Deceleration......Page 362
Plasma and Electromagnetic Simulations of Meteor Head Echo Radar Reflections......Page 366
A New Model for the Separation of Meteoroid Fragments in the Atmosphere......Page 378
Radar Backscatter from Underdense Meteors and Diffusion Rates......Page 385
Quantitative Comparison of a New Ab Initio Micrometeor Ablation Model with an Observationally Verifiable Standard Model......Page 392
Meteoroids, Meteors, and the Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard......Page 397
Apophis: the Story Behind the Scenes......Page 405
What was the Volatile Composition of the Planetesimals that Formed the Earth?......Page 415
Physical, Chemical, and Mineralogical Properties of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Particles Collected by Stardust......Page 426
Natural Variations in Comet-Aggregate Meteoroid Compositions......Page 439
Carbon in Meteoroids: Wild 2 Dust Analyses, IDPs and Cometary Dust Analogues......Page 450
Analysis of a Low Density Meteoroid with Enhanced Sodium......Page 461
NEOCAM: The Near Earth Object Chemical Analysis Mission......Page 470
Mostly Dormant Comets and their Disintegration into Meteoroid Streams: A Review......Page 480
Large Dust Grains Around Cometary Nuclei......Page 496
Micrometeorites and Their Implications for Meteors......Page 500
March 1, 2005 Daylight Fireball Over Galicia (NW of Spain) and Minho (N. Portugal)......Page 511
Mineralogy of HED Meteorites Using the Modified Gaussian Model......Page 517
Measurement of Ejecta from Normal Incident Hypervelocity Impact on Lunar Regolith Simulant......Page 523
Understanding the WMAP Results: Low-Order Multipoles and Dust in the Vicinity of the Solar System......Page 528