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Meteor44 is a software system developed at MSFC for the calibration and analysis of video meteor data. The photometric range
of the (8 bit) video data is extended from a visual magnitude range of from 8 to 3 to from 8 to −8 for both meteors and stellar
images using saturation compensation. Camera and lens specific saturation compensation coefficients are derived from artificial
variable star laboratory measurements. Saturation compensation significantly increases the number of meteors with measured
intensity and improves the estimation of meteoroid mass distribution. Astrometry is automated to determine each image's plate
coefficient using appropriate star catalogs. The images are simultaneously intensity calibrated from the contained stars to
determine the photon sensitivity and the saturation level referenced above the atmosphere. The camera's spectral response
is used to compensate for stellar color index and typical meteor spectra in order to report meteor light curves in traditional
visual magnitude units. Recent efforts include improved camera calibration procedures and long focal length "streak" meteor
photometry. Meteor44 has been used to analyze data from the 2001, 2002 and 2003 MSFC Leonid observational campaigns as well
as several lesser showers. 相似文献
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J. J. Rawal 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1992,58(2):163-171
Kedarath Fountain-Pond, Gujarat, India is a probable new Meteor Impact Crater Fountain-Pond which is irregular, very old and eroded. In this note we report some preliminary observations about it and invite attention of international community of scientists towards its existence and studies and to establish finally whether or not, it is a Meteor Impact Crater. We have also taken some steps in this direction. 相似文献
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Peter Jenniskens 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):5-9
The International Astronomical Union at its 2006 General Assembly in Prague has adopted a set of rules for meteor shower nomenclature,
a working list with designated names (with IAU numbers and three-letter codes), and established a Task Group for Meteor Shower Nomenclature in Commission 22 (Meteors and Interplanetary Dust) to help define which meteor showers exist from well defined groups of
meteoroids from a single parent body. 相似文献
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This paper describes the progress on the Virtual Meteor Observatory (VMO), a database which is being developed at ESA/RSSD to store video meteor observations and their derived orbits. The VMO was triggered by a discussion which took place at the first Meteor Orbit Determination (MOD) workshop in Roden, The Netherlands, in September 2006. Representatives of 15 groups working on the determination of meteor orbits and working with the resulting orbits discussed the design and implementation of a database which would combine different meteor orbit datasets. From this the concept of the VMO was born, which will, in the long run, allow accessing meteor observations via the internet. In the beginning, it will focus on meteor orbit data obtained with video systems. This paper presents the architectural design of the database as it has been defined in the meantime. 相似文献
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Peter Brown Robert J. Weryk Daniel K. Wong James Jones 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2008,102(1-4):209-219
The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar is a multi-frequency backscatter radar which has been in routine operation since 1999, with
an orbit measurement capability since 2002. In total, CMOR has measured over 2 million orbits of meteoroids with masses greater
than 10 μg, while recording more than 18 million meteor echoes in total. We have applied a two stage comparative technique
for identifying meteor streams in this dataset by making use of clustering in radiants and velocities without employing orbital
element comparisons directly. From the large dataset of single station echoes, combined radiant activity maps have been constructed
by binning and then stacking each years data per degree of solar longitude. Using the single-station mapping technique described
in Jones and Jones (Mon Not R Astron Soc 367:1050–1056, 2006) we have identified probable streams from these single station
observations. Additionally, using individual radiant and velocity data from the multi-station velocity determination routines,
we have utilized a wavelet search algorithm in radiant and velocity space to construct a list of probable streams. These two
lists were then compared and only streams detected by both techniques, on multiple frequencies and in multiple years were
assigned stream status. From this analysis we have identified 45 annual minor and major streams with high reliability. 相似文献
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Csilla Szasz Johan Kero Asta Pellinen-Wannberg John D. Mathews Nick J. Mitchell Werner Singer 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2004,95(1-4):101-107
The presence of a diurnal variation in meteor activity is well established. The sporadic meteor count rates are higher on
the local dawn side and lower on the local dusk side. This phenomenon is caused by the Earth’s orbital motion and rotation.
Meteor radar measurements have been compared from Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden, at 68° N, from Juliusruh, Germany, at 55° N, and
from Ascension Island, at 8° S, to investigate how the diurnal variation depends on season at different latitudes. Data have
been used from vernal and autumnal equinoxes and summer and winter solstices to locate the largest seasonal differences. 相似文献
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Meteor radar observations of ionized trails in the Earth’s atmosphere provide observations that do not depend on weather conditions
and time of day and provide good statistics for analysis. Further development in the new quasitomographic analysis of the
goniometric data of the Kazan meteoric radar has revealed a number of very weak meteoric streams with rates of more than 5–6
meteors per day. In addition to the known large meteor showers, we have found up to as many as 1000 small showers per month
that we have named microshowers. We shall operationally define a microshower as the minimal meteoric stream which can be detected
with the Kazan meteoric radar while quasitomographic procedures of processing interferometer data are used. 相似文献
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The Lyrid Meteor Stream: Orbit and Structure 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A filamentary structure in the Lyrid meteor stream based on photographic orbits available in the IAU Meteor database is identified
and studied. About 17 Lyrids are found in the database and the stream mean orbit is derived. The shower radiant is compact,
of a size 2° × 1.5°. Applying a stricter limiting value for the Southworth-Hawkins D-criterion, two distinct filaments in
the stream, on a short and a long period orbit, are separated. To confirm their consistency as filaments, their orbital evolution
over 5,000 years is investigated. 相似文献
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P.B. Babadzhanov 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1997,69(1-2):221-234
Recent theoretical and observational work has shown that the asteroids belonging to the Taurid meteoroid complex have a cometary
nature. If so, then they might possess related meteoroid streams producing meteor showers in the Earth atmosphere. We studied
the orbital evolution of ten numbered Taurid complex asteroids by the Halphen-Goryachev method. It turned out that all of
these asteroids are quadruple crossers relative to the Earth's orbit. Therefore their proposed meteoroid streams may in theory
each produce four meteor showers. The theoretical orbital elements and geocentric radiants of these showers are determined
and compared with the available observational data. The existence of the predicted forty meteor showers of the ten Taurid
complex asteroids is confirmed by a search of the published catalogues of observed meteor shower radiants and orbits, and
of the archives of the IAU Meteor Data Center (Lund). The existence of meteor showers associated with the Taurid Complex Asteroids
confirms that, most likely, these asteroids are extinct comets.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献