GH1  Meteors, Orbital Debris, and Dusty Plasmas I

Wednesday, January 9  08:20-12:00  Math 100

Session Chairs:  Christopher Crabtree, Sigrid Close

08:20  GH1-1  RADIO SCIENCE ASPECTS OF RADAR METEOR OBSERVATIONS: WHAT NEXT?

John D. Mathews*

Radar Space Sciences Lab, Penn State University, University Park, PA


08:40  GH1-2  ORBITAL DEBRIS REMEDIATION BY HYPERVELOCITY DUST IMPACT

Gurudas Ganguli*

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC


09:00  GH1-3  3D EVOLUTION OF INTERPOSED COMPRESSIBLE MAGNETOFLUIDS

Russell B. Dahlburg*1, Leonid Rudakov2, Guru Ganguli3

1Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
2Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda MD
3Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC


09:20  GH1-4  EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS WITH EMPHASIS ON PLASMA FORMATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

David A. Crawford*

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM


09:40  GH1-5  TEMPERATURE CHARACTERIZATION OF IMPACT-GENERATED PLASMA

Andrew Collette*, Keith Drake, Anna Mocker

CCLDAS/LASP, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


10:20  GH1-6  THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS CHARACTERIZING HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT PLASMAS: TOWARD WEATHERPROOF SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS

Nicolas Lee*, Sigrid Close

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA


10:40  GH1-7  TRANSIENT PLASMA ANALYZER FOR HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT EXPERIMENTS

David Lauben*, Sigrid Close, Ashish Goel, Nicholas Lee, Paul Tarantino

Stanford University, Stanford, CA


11:00  GH1-8  PLASMA TURBULENCE OF NON-SPECULAR TRAIL PLASMAS AS MEASURED BY A HIGH POWER LARGE APERTURE RADAR

Jonathan Yee*, Sigrid Close

Aeronautics/Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, California


11:20  GH1-9  HIGH-ALTITUDE METEORS AND METEOROID FRAGMENTATION OBSERVED AT JICAMARCA

John D. Mathews*, Boyi Gao, Julio Urbina, Freddy Galindo

Radar Space Sciences Lab, Penn State University, University Park, PA


11:40  GH1-10  MODELING THE EFFECT OF TURBULENCE ON SPECULAR METEOR ECHOES: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Freddy Galindo*1, Julio Urbina2, Lars Dyrud2, Jonathan Fentzke2

1Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Columbia, Maryland