Peter Jenniskens

Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers includes some 440 celestial maps and charts that plot the position of over 500 specific meteor showers observable on Earth throughout the year. Maps include both the visible showers detected by video cameras as well as showers detected by radar, and show unusual periodic showers. Shower descriptions are provided via a standard template for quick reference, which includes information on shower IAU number and code, shower name, type of shower (annual or periodic), dynamical type (short or long period), years of past outbursts, date of maximum, period of activity, radiant and radiant drift, geocentric speed, orbital elements, particle size distribution index, beginning altitude and lightcurve shape of the meteors, meteoroid densities, spectroscopic elemental abundances, estimated age, and parent body. In addition, a brief history is provided that details the shower's discovery and subsequent observations with references to the literature.With the sheer number of known meteor showers and the difficulty of using online resources to confirm new detections, understanding what showers are active on a given date, and reviewing where we are with understanding their parent body and dynamical history, this book is an invaluable resource to astronomers and researchers of the Solar System as well as to amateur astronomers who contributed much of the data presented here. Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers provides postgraduates, academics, researchers and professionals in space and planetary science with information they require on the meteor showers and meteoroid streams observed in our Solar System.

• Presents approximately 400 detailed meteor shower maps that show what showers are active on a given night for visual, video, and radar observers
• Provides thorough descriptions of each shower that can be used in planetary astronomy and for meteor observing sessions, the discovery of new showers, and planetary defense
• Highlights periodic, unusual showers that may be expected on a given night based on past occurrences that are important to satellite hazard avoidance and meteor storm chasing

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 900
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323884488
• Artikelnr.: 69215565

Autorenporträt

Dr. Peter Jenniskens is an expert on meteor showers, best known for his identification of a minor planet 2003 EH1 as the parent body of the Quadrantid shower, and for the recovery of fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3, which was the first time an asteroid was spotted in space, observed by telescopes, then samples retrieved. He is a meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California and Principal Investigator of the NASA-sponsored Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project, an international network of low-light video cameras for meteor triangulation. Previously, he authored the 2006 book "Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets", about the dynamical mechanisms of meteoroid stream evolution. Dr. Jenniskens is also the former chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature and a founding member.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Meteoroid orbit surveys 4. The Atlas:
Overview and Major Showers 5. Allsky 6. Northern Apex 7. Southern Apex 8.
Anthelion 9. Helion 10. Northern Antaplex 11. Southern Antaplex 12. The
Poles