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Discoveries from Observations and Modeling of the 1998/99 Leonids

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Interplanetary Dust

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Abstract

The Leonid meteor storm of November 1999 entered the history books as the second in the space age, but was the first to be well observed. This was a rare encounter with fresh comet ejecta that can be precisely dated to the 1899 return of the parent comet. Earth’s atmosphere acted as a giant detector for measuring composition and morphology of large mm-cm sized grains during what was in effect a comet mission to 55P /Tempel-Tuttle. The high meteor flux and preponderance of persistent trains enabled the deployment of modern observing techniques to probe the chemistry and physics of the interaction of meteoric matter with the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to many discoveries of interest to a wide array of science fields such as astrobiology, planetary astronomy, and the atmospheric sciences. Moreover, the correct timing ofthe 1999 Leonid storm by meteor stream modeling has ushered meteor storms into the modern era of forecasting space weather. This paper summarizes the discoveries that resulted from these observations and subsequent theoretical modeling.

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Jenniskens, P. (2001). Discoveries from Observations and Modeling of the 1998/99 Leonids. In: Grün, E., Gustafson, B.Å.S., Dermott, S., Fechtig, H. (eds) Interplanetary Dust. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56428-4_5

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