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Johnson Space Center's Leonids optical observations
Author(s) -
PAWLOWSKI James F.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01412.x
Subject(s) - meteoroid , meteor (satellite) , meteor shower , center (category theory) , astronomy , space (punctuation) , physics , meteorology , computer science , chemistry , crystallography , operating system
— The 1998 Leonid meteor shower was videotaped by NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) personnel, Jim Pawlowski and Jerry Winkler, at Houston, Texas, and Anna Scott at Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The videotapes were screened and the Leonid meteors in the videotapes were analyzed. The outcome of this effort was tables of counts per hour over the viewing period and a comparison to the Leonids meteors mass distribution model (Matney, 1998, unpubl. data) used for risk assessment calculations associated with space shuttle missions. The comparison exhibited a difference between the observed data and the model. Perhaps this difference can be resolved when observations from other parts of the Earth are assimilated with JSC observations.