Creating an artificial Geminid meteor shower: Correlation between ejecta velocity and observability

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-219

  Kasuga, T ^a,b   Sato, M ^b   Watanabe, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial meteor shower; Deep Impact

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; SPACECRAFT; VELOCITY CONTROL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ARTIFICIAL METEOR SHOWER; DEEP IMPACT; EJECTA VELOCITY;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 34547096533     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.026     Document Type: Article

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