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Meteoroids 2007

an international conference at the

CosmoCaixa Museum

organized by the

Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya

and

Institut de Cičncies de l'Espai (CSIC)

Barcelona, Spain

June 11-15, 2007

Pictures of the Meeting

Meteoroids 2007 pictures listed by author.

Scientific Program

Updated Scientific Program .

Updated List of Accepted Contributions.

SESSION 1: OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES AND METEOR DETECTION PROGRAMS

Current status and development of fireball networks. Fireball monitoring from satellites. Acoustic and seismic detections. Video, CCD and radiometric observations. Spectroscopic techniques. Radar techniques. VLF detections. Dust detectors.

  • Invited speakers: Diego Janches, Pavel Spurny and Douglas O. ReVelle.

    SESSION 2: METEOR SHOWERS' ACTIVITY AND FORECASTING

    Determination of ZHRs and spatial fluxes. Population indices. Meteor activity forecasting. Catalogs of meteor showers. Software for meteor recognition and measurement. Determination of fluxes from radar observations.

  • Invited speakers: Peter Brown, Jeremie Vaubaillon and Junichi Watanabe.

    SESSION 3: ORBITS OF METEOROIDS AND DUST

    Radiants and orbits of sporadic meteors. Precise orbits of shower meteors. Orbital evolution of meteoroid streams. Ejection from comets. Asteroidal streams. Sources and delivery of meteorites to the Earth. Non-gravitational effects. Interstellar meteoroids.

  • Invited speakers: Peter Jenniskens, P.A. Wiegert and I. Williams.

    SESSION 4: METEOROIDS INTERACTIONS WITH ATMOSPHERES

    Ablation coefficient. Luminous efficiency. Fragmentation. Sputtering. Light curves. Theories of hydrodynamic flow. Heat transfer. Ionization. Head echo. Dark flight and meteorite falls. Ablation products as micrometeorites: fragments and condensates.

  • Invited speakers: Lars Dyrud, Matthew J. Genge and Olga Popova.

    SESSION 5: ASTROMINERALOGY: COMET 81P/WILD 2 AND COMETARY METEOROIDS

    Stardust's results on comet 81P/Wild 2. Meteoroids, IDPs and micrometeorites. Sources of IDPs and micrometeorites. Meteoroids sampling cometary diversity.

  • Invited speakers: Jiri Borovicka, George Flynn, Frans J.M. Rietmeijer, Alessandra Rotundi, and Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez.

    SESSION 6: METEOROID FLUX, IMPACT HAZARD, AND SOLAR SYSTEM DUST

    Influx of sporadic bolides. Lunar flash monitoring and terrestrial hazard. Contribution of cometary and asteroidal bodies. Meteoroids from NEOs. Effects of large impactors: airbursts, plumes, craters, tsunamis, etc. Historical impacts: K/T event, Tunguska, etc.

  • Invited speakers: Clark Chapman, and Joseph A. Nuth III.

    • Meteoroids 2007 Poster (English).

    Meteoroids 2007 Poster (Spanish).

    Barcelona Tour Information (on Thursday 14).

    For additional details...

    Website: http://www.spmn.uji.es/meteoroids-2007/

    Conference e-mail address: meteoroids2007@ieec.uab.es

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