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Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers by Peter Jenniskens (Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, USASenior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA) at Abbey's Bookshop,
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Peter Jenniskens (Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, USASenior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers

Peter Jenniskens (Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, USASenior Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

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English
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
24 October 2023
Space science
The International Astronomical Union formalized the naming of meteor showers in 2006. Each newly discovered shower now is assigned a unique and officially recognized name, number, and 3-letter code. Close to a thousand possible meteor showers have since been reported, over a hundred in the cause of writing this book.

Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers takes stock of all reported detections by going back to the combined video and radar data in hand at the end of 2021, in order to weed out duplicates and false detections. Maps were created that show the direction of motion of meteors (their radiant) during 5-day and 10-day intervals throughout the year. All 500+ showers recognized are briefly described from their radiant, speed, and orbital elements, and the meteoroid mass distribution index was calculated. Physical properties of the meteoroids were derived from their beginning, peak and end height, from their deceleration in Earth's atmosphere, and from spectroscopic information. Candidate parent bodies are mentioned and the age of the stream was calculated from the dispersions in orbital elements and from the meteor magnitude distribution index. A brief history is given of the shower's discovery, of when features were first recognized, and of results from dynamical modeling, all with references to the literature.
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Imprint:   Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 175mm, 
Weight:   1.860kg
ISBN:   9780443235771
ISBN 10:   0443235775
Pages:   838
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr. Peter Jenniskens is a Meteor Astronomer in the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California and Principal Investigator of an international network of low-light video cameras for meteor triangulation called CAMS, the NASA sponsored Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance project. Many results presented in this book are derived from CAMS observations. 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.

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