Perseid Meteor Shower
This week you may have been looking skyward at night to catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, but have you ever wondered how experts can use such events to improve our understanding and mathematical modeling of potential hazards?
In this paper, risk to satellites/astronauts was reassessed using updated models to optimise the efficiency of potential mitigation required.
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Improved measurement of radar meteor shower mass indices
Yung E. Kipreos, Althea V. Moorhead, Peter G. Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown, William J. Cooke