Flux of Kilogram-sized Meteoroids from Lunar Impact Monitoring

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Sep 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008dps....40.3303s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #33.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.455

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Routine lunar impact monitoring has harvested over 110 impacts in 2 years of observations using 0.25, 0.36 and 0.5 m telescopes and low-light-level video cameras. The night side of the lunar surface provides a large collecting area for detecting these impacts and allows estimation of the flux of meteoroids down to a limiting luminous energy. In order to determine the limiting mass for these observations, models of the sporadic meteoroid environment were used to determine the velocity distribution and new measurements of luminous efficiency were made at the Ames Vertical Gun Range. The flux of meteoroids in this size range has implications for Near Earth Object populations as well as for estimating impact ejecta risk for future lunar missions.

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