Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets

Peter Jenniskens

800 pages, parution le 11/09/2006

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Résumé

Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed. Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. He includes the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible. All known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating details on the most important showers and their parent comets. The book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next 50 years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and professional astronomers.

Explains the cause and evolution of meteoroid streams
Identifies about 250 known meteor showers and forecasts exceptional meteor showers in the coming decades
Contains new insights into comet fragmentation as an important source of main meteor showers
Details results from the Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign

Sommaire

Introduction
- How meteor showers were linked to comets
- What is at the core of comets?
- The formation of meteoroid streams
- Meteors from meteoroid impacts in Earth
- Comet and meteoroid orbits in space and time
Parent Bodies
- Long period comets
- Halley-type comets
- Jupiter-family comets
- Fading comets of the inner solar system
- Asteroids
Young Streams from Whipple-type Ejection
- What planets do to dust trails
- Meteor storm chasing
- Meteor outbursts from long-period comets
- Trapped: the Leonid Filament
- The Leonid storms
- The Ursids
- The Perseids
- Other Halley-type comets
- Dust trails of Jupiter-family comets
Young Streams from Comet Fragmentation
- Broken comets
- Quadrantids
- Geminids
- The sunskirting streams: Arietids and delta-Aquariids
- Alpha-Capricornids and kappa-Cygnids
- The Taurid complex
Old Streams and Sporadic Meteoroids
- Annual showers
- Dispersion from gradually evolving parent body orbits
- The ecliptic streams
- Toroidal streams
- Meteor showers from asteroids
- Sporadic meteors and the zodiacal cloud
Impact and Relevance of Meteor Showers
- Impact!
- Meteor showers on other planets
- Meteors and the origin of life

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Peter Jenniskens
Parution	11/09/2006
Nb. de pages	800
Format	17,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1720g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521853491
ISBN13	978-0-521-85349-1