Meteors in the Earth's Atmosphere
Meteors in the Earth's Atmosphere
£85.00
GBPA huge amount of extraterrestrial matter enters the Earth's atmosphere every year and eventually settles on the ground. The two main sources of this matter are cosmic dust and meteoroid streams. Meteorites form only a very small fraction of the total mass that is captured by the Earth's atmosphere. Most of the matter is in the form of very fine dust particles. Because of the temperatures reached during entry, a large proportion of these particles evaporate at high altitudes, giving rise to radar signatures, and to the visual phenomenon of shooting stars. This book integrates astronomical observations and theories with geophysical studies, presenting a comprehensive overview of the extraterrestrial matter that falls to Earth from space. Meteoroids are the main topic of the book, although cosmic dust, interplanetary matter and meteorites are also discussed. This work will be of great value to researchers involved in the study of meteor phenomena.
- Fully up-to-date coverage of meteor phenomena
- The first book to integrate astronomical observations and theories with geophysical studies
Product details
September 2002Hardback
9780521804318
332 pages
255 × 181 × 22 mm
0.858kg
89 b/w illus. 3 colour illus. 41 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Iwan Williams and Edmond Murad
- 2. The evolution of meteoroid streams Iwan Williams
- 3. Space dust measurements Eberhard Grun, Valeri Dikarev, Harald Kruger and Markus Landgraf
- 4. Extraterrestrial dust in the near-Earth environment George Flynn
- 5. Detection and analysis procedures for visual photographic and image intensified CCD meteor observations Robert Hawkes
- 6. Radar observations W. Jack Baggaley
- 7. Meteor trails as observed by Lidar Ulf von Zahn, J. Hoffner and William McNeil
- 8. In situ measurements of meteoritic ions Joseph Grebowsky and Arthur Aikin
- 9. Collected extraterrestrial materials: interplanetary dust particles, micrometeorites, meteorites, and meteoritic dust Frans Rietmeijer
- 10. Meteoroid impacts on spacecraft
- Luigi Foschini
- 11. Models of meteoritic metals in the atmosphere William McNeil, Edmond Murad and John Plane
- 12. Laboratory studies of meteoritic metal chemistry John Plane
- 13. Summary and future outlook Edmond Murad and Iwan Williams.
