Müller, Michael; Green, Simon F. and McBride, Neil
(2001).
Constraining cometary ejection models from meteor storm observations.
In: Meteoroids 2001 Conference, 6-10 Aug 2001, Kiruna, Sweden.
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Abstract
Modelling and observations of the Leonids have shown that maxima in the meteor storm activity can be identified as due to particles released from the comet during certain perihelion passages. If the particles originating from a certain perihelion passage can be identified, the next obvious question to ask is what information can be gained about the ejection process of particles from a cometary nucleus. We have developed a method to calculate the set of all possible dust trajectories that reach the Earth at some given time. The method involves numerical integration of a few dust particles only and is applied to the Leonid activity in the year 2000. We show that particles of different sizes entering the Earth's atmosphere at the same time were released from the comet at different heliocentric distances. Therefore one has to make assumptions about the activity of the comet with heliocentric distance in order to derive the cometary mass distribution from an observed meteor mass distribution. However, we outline how lower limits on the ejection velocity of the observed particles can be derived.
| Item Type: |
Conference Item
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| ISBN: |
92-9092-805-0, 978-92-9092-805-8 |
| Extra Information: |
Published in: Proceedings of the Meteoroids 2001 Conference, 6-10 August 2001, Kiruna, Sweden. Ed.: Barbara Warmbein. ESA SP-495, Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-805-0, 2001, p. 47 - 54. |
| Keywords: |
comets; meteor storms |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Science > Physical Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
| Item ID: |
3401 |
| Depositing User: |
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| Date Deposited: |
16 Feb 2007 |
| Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2010 11:15 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3401 |
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