GH1  Meteors, Orbital Debris, and Dusty Plasmas

Friday, January 8  08:20-11:40  Room 105

Session Chairs:  Julio Urbina, Christopher Crabtree

08:20  GH1-1  THE DUST ACCELERATOR FACILITY AT THE UNVIERSITY OF COLORADO

Mihaly Horanyi*

U. of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado


08:40  GH1-2  PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON SOLITON GENERATION AND DETECTION IN SIMULATED LEO PLASMA FOR ORBITAL DEBRIS DETECTION

Eric D. Gillman*, Erik Tejero, Chris Crabtree, Guru Ganguli, Bill Amatucci

Plasma Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


09:00  GH1-3  GROUND-BASED AND MICROGRAVITY STUDIES OF DUSTY PLASMA INSTABILITIES USING PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV)

Edward Thomas*1, Uwe Konopka1, Spencer LeBlanc1, Taylor Hall1, Brian Lynch1, Markus Thoma2, Christina Knapek3, Mikhail Pusstylnik3, Martin Fink3, Hubertus Thomas3

1Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Geissen, GERMANY
3Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, GERMANY


09:20  GH1-4  ALL-SKY TRACKING OF IRREGULARITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MID-LATITUDE SPORADIC-E USING THE LONG WAVELENGTH ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE

Joseph Helmboldt*1, Gregory Taylor2, Sophia Cockrell2

1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
2University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM


09:40  GH1-5  NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF METEOR HEAD PLASMA RADAR CROSS SECTIONS

Robert A. Marshall*1, Sigrid Close2, Paul Bernhardt3, Peter Brown4

1Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
4Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CANADA


10:20  GH1-6  Range-Spread Meteor Echoes from Non-Field-Aligned Irregularities

Ana M. Tarano*

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford


10:40  GH1-7  EFFECT OF NEUTRAL WIND SPEEDS ON THE CREATION OF METEOR TRAIL ECHOES

Julio V. Urbina*1, Freddy R. Galindo1, Lars P. Dyrud2, Jonathan Fentzke2

1Electrical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA
2OmniEarth, Arlington, VA


11:00  GH1-8  EFFECT OF PLASMA TURBULENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF SPECULAR METEOR ECHOES

Julio V. Urbina*1, Freddy R. Galindo1, Lars P. Dyrud2, Jonathan Fentzke2

1Electrical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA
2OmniEarth, Arlington, VA


11:20  GH1-9  A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO SINGLE MEASUREMENT BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION

Andrew Nuttall*, Sigrid Close

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford