HG1  Meteors, Orbital Debris, and Dusty Plasmas I

Friday, January 10  08:20-12:00  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Gurudas Ganguli, Jonathan Fentzke

08:20  HG1-1  SOME EVOLVING THOUGHTS REGARDING RADAR METEOR OBSERVATIONS

John D. Mathews*

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


08:40  HG1-2  THE CONFIRMATION OF HIGH-ALTITUDE RADAR METEORS OBSERVED WITH THE JICAMARCA 50 MHZ ARRAY RADAR

Boyi Gao*, John Mathews

Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA


09:00  HG1-3  QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS ON THE DURATION OF NON-SPECULAR METEOR TRAILS

Freddy Galindo1, Julio Urbina*1, Lars Dyrud2, Jonathan Fentzke3

1Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2Head Earth and Space Science, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
3Scientific Solutions, Inc and Shell, Cambridge, Massachusetts


09:20  HG1-4  METEOR TRAIL OBSERVATIONS COLLECTED WITH THE PENN STATE VHF RADAR

Julio Urbina*1, Robert Sorbello1, Lars P. Dyrud2, Jonathan Fentzke3, Freddy Galindo1

1CSSL/Electrical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA
2C. S. Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
3Scientific Solutions, Inc.,, North Chelmsford, MA


09:40  HG1-5  INITIAL RESULTS FROM SIMULTANEOUS 30 MHZ AND 50 MHZ JICAMARCA ALL-SKY SPECULAR METEOR RADAR OBSERVATIONS

Glenn F. Sugar*1, Danny Scipion2, Sigrid Close1, Marco Milla2

1Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Lima, PERU


10:20  HG1-6  INITIAL RESULTS FROM A FORWARD-SCATTER METEOR WIND RADAR EXPERIMENT BASED ON THE COLORADO SOFTWARE RADAR (COSRAD)

Cody Vaudrin*, Scott Palo

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


10:40  HG1-7  RF EMISSION FROM HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT PLASMA

Sigrid Close*, Alex Fletcher, Theresa Johnson, Ivan Linscott, Ashish Goel, Nicolas Lee

Stanford University, Stanford, CA


11:00  HG1-8  SIMULATING HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT PLASMAS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON SPACECRAFT

Alexander Fletcher*, Sigrid Close

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA


11:20  HG1-9  FUNDAMENTAL ASTRODYANMICS CHALLENGES IN ORBITAL DEBRIS DETECTION, TRACKING, IDENTIFICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION

Moriba Jah*

Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM


11:40  HG1-10  HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS OF MICROSCOPIC DUST GRAINS FOR ORBITAL DEBRIS REMEDIATION

C. Crabtree*1, G. Ganguli1, A. Velikovich1, L. Rudakov2

1Division of Plasma Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2Icarus Research Inc., Bethesda, MD