Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004em%26p...95..123m&link_type=abstract
Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 95, Issue 1-4, pp. 123-139
Physics
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Engineering Model, Interplanetary, Sporadic Meteoroids
Scientific paper
In an attempt to overcome some of the deficiencies of existing meteoroid models, NASA’s Space Environments and Effects (SEE) Program sponsored a 3 year research effort at the University of Western Ontario. The resulting understanding of the sporadic meteoroid environment particularly the nature and distribution of the sporadic sources were then incorporated into a new Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM) by members of the Space Environments Team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. This paper discusses some of the revolutionary aspects of MEM which include (a) identification of the sporadic radiants with real sources of meteoroids, such as comets, (b) a physics-based approach which yields accurate fluxes and directionality for interplanetary spacecraft anywhere from 0.2 to 2.0 astronomical units (AU), and (c) velocity distributions obtained from theory and validated against observation. Use of the model, which gives penetrating fluxes and average impact speeds on the surfaces of a cube-like structure, is also described along with its current limitations and plans for future improvements.
Cooke William
Jones Jason J.
Kauffman B.
McNamara Harold
Smith Sheila
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