Leonid Storm Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. The 1999 Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign — An Early Review

      • Peter Jenniskens, Steven J. Butow, Mark Fonda

      Pages 1-26

   2. USAF Perspectives on Leonid Threat and Data Gathering Campaigns

      • Marvin H. Treu, Simon P. Worden, Michael G. Bedard, Randall K. Bartlett

      Pages 27-38

   3. The ESOC “Meteor Alert Center” (MALC) and Its Application during the 1999 Leonid Shower

      • Joe Zender, Detlef Koschny, Luis Neira

      Pages 39-46

   4. Coordinated Observations of Leonids in Israel

      • Noah Brosch

      Pages 47-56

3. Astrobiology

   1. Meteors: A Delivery Mechanism of Organic Matter to the Early Earth

      • Peter Jenniskens, Mike A. Wilson, Dennis Packan, Christophe O. Laux, Charles H. Krüger, Iain D. Boyd et al.

      Pages 57-70

   2. Search for Organic Matter in Leonid Meteoroids

      • Richard L. Rairden, Peter Jenniskens, Christophe O. Laux

      Pages 71-80

   3. Observations of Leonid Meteors Using a Mid-Wave Infrared Imaging Spectrograph

      • George S. Rossano, Ray W. Russell, David K. Lynch, Ted K. Tessensohn, David Warren, Peter Jenniskens

      Pages 81-92

   4. Computation of Atmospheric Entry Flow about a Leonid Meteoroid

      • Iain D. Boyd

      Pages 93-108

   5. Screening of Meteoroids by Ablation Vapor in High-Velocity Meteors

      • Olga P. Popova, Svetlana N. Sidneva, Valery V. Shuvalov, Alexandr S. Strelkov

      Pages 109-128

   6. Search for Extraterrestrial Origin of Atmospheric Trace Molecules — Radio Sub-Mm Observations during the Leonids

      • Didier Despois, Philippe Ricaud, Nicolas Lautié, Nicola Schneider, Thierry Jacq, Nicolas Biver et al.

      Pages 129-140

   7. Organic Matter in Dust of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner and the Draconid Meteoroids

      • Nikolai N. Kiselev, Klaus Jockers, Vera K. Rosenbush

      Pages 141-148

4. Comet Dust Trail: Meteoroid Stream Dynamics

   1. Predicting the Strength of Leonid Outbursts

      • Esko J. Lyytinen, Tom Van Flandern

      Pages 149-166

   2. Global Ground-Based Electro-Optical and Radar Observations of the 1999 Leonid Shower: First Results

      • P. Brown, M. D. Campbell, K. J. Ellis, R. L. Hawkes, J. Jones, P. Gural et al.

      Pages 167-190

   3. Lorentz Shaped Comet Dust Trail Cross Section from New Hybrid Visual and Video Meteor Counting Technique — Implications for Future Leonid Storm Encounters

      • Peter Jenniskens, Chris Crawford, Steven J. Butow, David Nugent, Mike Koop, David Holman et al.

      Pages 191-208

   4. Comparing Meteor Number Fluxes from Ground-Based and Airplane-Based Video Observations

      • Detlef Koschny, Joe Zender

      Pages 209-220

   5. Leonid Storm Flux Analysis from One Leonid Mac Video AL50R

      • Peter S. Gural, Peter Jenniskens

      Pages 221-247

   6. The Leonid Meteors and Space Shuttle Risk Assessment

      • James F. Pawlowski, Thomas T. Hebert

      Pages 249-256

   7. Visual Observations of the 1998 and 1999 Leonids in Israel

      • Alex Mikishev, Anna Levina

      Pages 257-263

   8. Observations of the Leonid Meteoroid Stream by a Multistation FS Radio System

      • Giordano Cevolani, Giuseppe Pupillo, Anton Hajduk, Vladimir Porubčan

      Pages 265-276

This book will appeal to all researchers that have an interest in the current Leonid showers. It contains over forty research papers that present some of the first observational results of the November 1999 Leonid meteor storm, the first storm observed by modern observing techniques. The book is a first glimpse of the large amount of information obtained during NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign and groundbased campaigns throughout the world. It provides an excellent overview on the state of meteor shower research for any professional researcher or amateur meteor observer interested in studies of meteors and meteoroids and their relation to comets, the origin of life on Earth, the satellite impact hazard issue, and upper atmosphere studies of neutral atom chemistry, the formation of meteoric debris, persistent trains, airglow, noctilucent clouds, sprites and elves.

• Cloud
• Orbit
• Storm
• observing techniques
• radar
• relativistic jet
• satellite

• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, USA

  Peter Jenniskens, Mark Fonda

• SETI Institute, USA

  Peter Jenniskens

• Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

  Frans Rietmeijer

• The Wise Observatory and the School of Physics and Astronomy, Beverly and Raymond Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Noah Brosch

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