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Author:   J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez ,  J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez ,  F. Rietmeijer ,  F. Rietmeijer
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9781441926876

ISBN 10:   1441926879
Pages:   562
Publication Date:   29 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

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

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