Modern Meteor Science An Interdisciplinary View

Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Possible meteoroid streams associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50......Page 13
Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related?......Page 19
The problem of linking minor meteor showers to their parent bodies: initial considerations......Page 27
Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years......Page 34
Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The Neossat Mission......Page 40
Dynamical Relation of Meteorids to Comets and Asteroids......Page 48
Meteor Streams and Comets......Page 55
Meteoric Activities of the Last Millennium......Page 68
A Fine Structure of the Perseid Meteoroid Stream......Page 74
Meteoroid Streams Associated to Comets 9P/TEMPEL 1 and 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO......Page 80
The Core of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream is Two Hundred Years Old......Page 86
The Meteor Flux: It Depends How You Look......Page 94
Latitudinal Variations of Diurnal Meteor Rates......Page 106
Modeling the Sporadic Meteoroid Background Cloud......Page 113
Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM): A Meteoroid Model For The Inner Solar System......Page 127
MSFC Stream Model Preliminary Results: Modeling Recent Leonid and Perseid Encounters......Page 144
Microshower Structure of the Meteor Complex......Page 157
Associations of Meteor Microshowers or as the Kazan Radar \"Sees\" Radiants on Northern Celestial Hemisphere......Page 167
Fragmentation of Leonids in space and a model of spatial distribution of meteoroids within the Leonid stream......Page 182
Mass Flux of Asteroidal Origin Meteoroids on Periodic Comet Nuclei......Page 188
Interstellar dust in the solar system......Page 197
Development of an Advanced Dust Telescope......Page 210
A Search for Interstellar Meteoroids Using the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)......Page 220
Complex of Meteoroid Orbits with Eccentricities Near 1 and Higher......Page 227
Optical Predictions for High Geocentric Velocity Meteors......Page 234
Elemental Abundances in Leonid and Perseid Meteoroids......Page 242
Radiants of the Leonids 1999 and 2001 Obtained by LLTV Systems Using Automatic Software Tools......Page 251
Video and Photographic Spectroscopy of 1998 and 2001 Leonid Persistent Trains from 300 to 930 nm......Page 260
Altitudinal Distribution Of 20 Persistent Meteor Trains: Estimates Derived from Metro Campaign Archives......Page 273
Searching for Light Curve Evidence of Meteoroid Structure and Fragmentation......Page 282
Arietid Meteor Orbits Measurements......Page 289
Meteoroid ablation models......Page 294
Interplanetary Dust and Carbonaceous Meteorites: Constraints on Porosity, Mineralogy and Chemistry of Meteors from Rubble-Pile Planetesimals......Page 311
Preparing For Hyperseed MAC: An Observing Campaign To Monitor The Entry Of The Genesis Sample Return Capsule......Page 329
Physical Properties of Meteorites and Interplanetary Dust Particles: Clues to the Properties of the Meteors and their Parent Bodies......Page 351
Spectroscopy of a Geminid Fireball: Its Similarity to Cometary Meteoroids and the Nature of its Parent Body......Page 365
Classical Meteor Light Curve Morphology......Page 378
A Model of Single and Fragmenting Meteoroid Interaction with Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Atmosphere......Page 384
Sputtering and High Altitude Meteors......Page 392
Application of an Equilibrium Vaporization Model to the Ablation of Chondritic and Achondritic Meteoroids......Page 402
Predicting Martian and Venusian Meteor Shower Activity......Page 413
Calculation of Variable Drag and Heat-Transfer Coefficients in Meteoric Physics Equations......Page 420
Recent Advances in Bolide Entry Modeling: A Bolide Potpourri......Page 427
Fragmentation Model Analysis of EN270200 Fireball......Page 463
A New Analysis of Fireball Data from the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project (MORP)......Page 474
Bolide Energy Estimates from Infrasonic Measurements......Page 485
The Modeling of Bolide Terminal Explosions......Page 497
Optical Observations of Meteors......Page 505
Meteor44 Video Meteor Photometry......Page 516
Results from the AIM-IT meteor tracking system......Page 524
The Development of the Spanish Fireball Network Using a New All-Sky CCD System......Page 536
Multi-Instrument Observations of Bright Meteors in the Czech Republic......Page 551
Optical Trail Width Measurements of Faint Meteors......Page 561
High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Optical Search for Evidence of Meteoroid Fragmentation......Page 569
TV Observation of the Daytime Meteor Shower; the Arietids......Page 576
Techniques for Measuring Radar Meteor Speeds......Page 582
The Velocity Distribution of Meteoroids at the Earth as Measured by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)......Page 597
The Hyperthermal Ionization and High Absolute Meteor Velocities Observed with HPLA Radars......Page 607
Power Fluctuations in Meteor Head Echoes Observed with the EISCAT VHF Radar......Page 613
Meteoroid Bulk Density Determination Using Radar Head Echo Observations......Page 619
Radar Measurements of Meteoroid Decelerations......Page 626
Radar Measurements of Macro Fragmentation in Meteoroids......Page 634
Radar Campaign to Determine the Dependence of Initial Radii of Meteor Plasma Trains on Trajectory and Orbit......Page 642
Experimental Radar Studies of Anisotropic Diffusion of High Altitude Meteor Trails......Page 649
Radar Observations of Taurid Complex Meteor Showers in 2003: Activity and Mass Distribution......Page 658
Radar Meteors Range Distribution and Some Parameters of Meteoroids: Application to Perseids and β Taurids Showers......Page 666
Associations between asteroids and meteoroid streams......Page 674
Single and Multi-Station Radar Observations of the Geminid/Sextantid Meteor Stream System......Page 689
On the Future Prospects of Meteor Detections (Invited Review)......Page 698