GH2  Meteors, Orbital Debris, and Dusty Plasmas II

Wednesday, January 9  13:20-16:20  Math 100

Session Chairs:  Sigrid Close, Christopher Crabtree

13:20  GH2-1  METEOR TRAIL OBSERVATIONS COLLECTED WITH THE NEW PENN STATE VHF RADAR

Julio Urbina*1, Jonathan Fentzke2, Lars Dyrud2, Ryan Seal1, Alexander Hackett1

1Electrical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA
2Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, Columbia, MD


13:40  GH2-2  A METEOR WIND RADAR MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN USING THE COLORADO SOFTWARE DEFINED RADAR WITH METEOR TRIAL ECHOES INTERPRETED UNDER A MODERN DIFFUSION THEORY

Cody Vaudrin*, Scott Palo

Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


14:00  GH2-3  DETECTION OF METEORIC DUST IN THE MESOSPHERE BY THE CHAMPS ROCKETS

Zoltan Sternovsky*1, Scott Robertson1, Shannon Dickson1, Mihaly Horanyi1, Martin Friedrich2, Diego Janches3, Biff Williams4

1Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
3Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD
4GATS-Inc., Boulder, CO


14:20  GH2-4  THE SOUTHERN ARGENTINA AGILE METEOR RADAR (SAAMER): A PLATFORM FOR COMPREHENSIVE METEOR OBSERVATIONS AND STUDIES

Diego Janches*1, Steven Pifko2, Jose Luis Hormaechea3, Wayne Hocking4, David C. Fritts5, Claudio Brunini6, Sigrid Close2, Robert Michell7, Marilia Samara7

1Space Weather Lab, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
2Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
3Estacion Astronomica Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
4Dept. Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
5Gats Inc., Boulder, CO
6Dept. of Astronomy and Geophysics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
7SouthWest Research Institute, San Antonio,TX


14:40  GH2-5  MODELING SOLAR WIND MASS-LOADING DUE TO DUST IN THE VICINITY OF THE SUN

Anthony Rasca*, Mihaly Horanyi

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


15:20  GH2-6  NANO-DUST ANALYZER FOR THE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF NANOMETER SIZE DUST PARTICLES AND BETA METEOROIDS ORIGINATING NEAR THE SUN

Leela E. O'Brien*1, Andrew Gemer2, Eberhard Gruen3, Andrew Collette4, Mihaly Horanyi2, Eberhard Moebius5, Siegfried Auer6, Antal Juhasz7, Ralf Srama8, Zoltan Sternovsky9

1Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
2Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado,Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
3Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
4Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder,Coloroado
5Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
6A&M Associates, Bayse, Virginia
76. KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, Hungary
8Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
9Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado


15:40  GH2-7  MODELING DUST CLOUDS ON THE MOON

Jamey R. Szalay*1,2, Mihaly Horanyi1,2

1Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO


16:00  GH2-8  SEASONAL STUDIES OF HIGH LATITUDE UHF DIURNAL METEOR OBSERVATIONS

Stanley Briczinski*1, John Mathews2

1Plasma Physics Division, NRL, Washington, DC
2Penn State, University Park, PA