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Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.5906c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #59.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.535
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The directional dependence of the flux and orbits of sporadic meteoroids is of great importance to understanding the origin and nature of this population of small solar system bodies. The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) has recorded over 5 million meteoroid orbits from 2002 to the present. This dataset, larger than any previously available, makes it possible to study the sporadic meteor distribution at much greater spatial resolution than previously possible.
The rates of meteor orbits with radiants occurring in two degree bins over the whole sky have been calculated from five years of data. The rates have been corrected for observing biases, such as initial trail radius and the collecting area for each radiant, and weighted to a constant limiting mass and a constant limiting energy. The variation of the rates with solar longitude is also examined. The directional variation of geocentric speed, semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination and other orbital parameters has been calculated, as have the collision probabilities of each meteoroid with the Earth, and the average collisional lifetime for the observed meteoroids.
The majority of meteoroids in the mass range observed by CMOR originate in the helion and antihelion sporadic sources. In addition to the north and south apex sources and the north toroidal source, the CMOR data shows a ring of radiants approximately 55 degrees from the apex, with a significant depletion of radiants immediately inside the ring. The depletion of radiants appears to be caused by removal of meteoroids through collisions, as the collisional lifetimes of meteoroids inside the ring are significantly shorter than those observed outside the ring. Further study of the sporadic meteoroid distribution may reveal whether the complex is in a steady state, and the approximate number and orbital characteristics of the parent bodies.
Thanks to the NASA MSFC MEO Office.
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