Interplanetary dust, meteoroids, meteors and meteorites

D Koschny, RH Soja, C Engrand, GJ Flynn… - Space science …, 2019 - Springer
Interplanetary dust particles and meteoroids mostly originate from comets and asteroids.
Understanding their distribution in the Solar system, their dynamical behavior and their …

Meteoroids at the Moon: orbital properties, surface vaporization, and impact ejecta production

P Pokorný, D Janches, M Sarantos… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We use a dynamical model to characterize the monthly and yearly variations of the lunar
meteoroid environment for meteoroids originating from short and long‐period comets and …

Observation of meteors from space with the Mini-EUSO detector on board the International Space Station

D Barghini, M Battisti, A Belov, M Bertaina… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Observations of meteors in the Earth's atmosphere offer a unique tool for
determining the flux of meteoroids that are too small to be detected by direct telescopic …

Dynamical model for the toroidal sporadic meteors

P Pokorný, D Vokrouhlický, D Nesvorný… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
More than a decade of radar operations by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar have allowed
both young and moderately old streams to be distinguished from the dispersed sporadic …

NASA's meteoroid engineering model 3 and its ability to replicate spacecraft impact rates

AV Moorhead, A Kingery, S Ehlert - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Meteoroids pose one of the largest risks to spacecraft outside of low Earth orbit. To correctly
predict the rate at which meteoroids impact and damage spacecraft, environment models …

A comprehensive model of the meteoroid environment around Mercury

P Pokorný, M Sarantos, D Janches - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To characterize the meteoroid environment around Mercury and its contribution to the
planet's exosphere, we combined four distinctive sources of meteoroids in the solar system …

Simultaneous radar and video meteors—I: Metric comparisons

RJ Weryk, PG Brown - Planetary and Space Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Simultaneous radar and video measurements were made using the Canadian Meteor Orbit
Radar (CMOR) and several Gen-III image-intensified CCD cameras to observationally …

Neutral density variation from specular meteor echo observations spanning one solar cycle

G Stober, V Matthias, P Brown… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Specular meteor radars have provided essential information about the mesospheric/lower
thermosphere (MLT) dynamics. The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar has been conducting …

Characterizing the daytime sextantids meteor shower and unveiling the nature of the phaethon-geminid stream complex

Y Kipreos, M Campbell-Brown… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Daytime Sextantids meteor shower, part of the Phaethon-Geminid Stream
Complex (PGC), is closely related to the Geminids, currently the strongest meteor shower …

A meteoroid stream survey using the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar–III. Mass distribution indices of six major meteor showers

RC Blaauw, MD Campbell-Brown… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The mass distribution index of the Geminid, Quadrantid, Arietid, Eta Aquariid, Orionid and
South Delta Aquariid meteor showers have been measured using data from 2007 to 2010 …