Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science [Paperback]

This rigorously refereed volume is a compilation of articles that summarize the most recent results in meteor, meteoroid and related fields presented at the Meteoroids 2007 conference held at the impressive CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona, Spain.

Preface.- The IAU Meteor Shower Nomenclature Rules.- Current Status of the Photographic Meteoroid Orbits Database and a Call for Contributions to a New Version.- The Dynamics of Low-Perihelion Meteoroid Streams.- Meteor Outburst Profiles and Cometary Ejection Models.- High Inclination Meteorite Streams can Exist.- Motion of a Meteoroid Released from an Asteroid.- Searching for the Parent of the Tunguska Cosmic Body.- Orbital Evolution of P??bram and Neuschwanstein.- Meteors in the IAU Meteor Data Center on Hyperbolic Orbits.- Meteoroid Stream Searching: The Use of the Vectorial Elements.- Directional Variation of Sporadic Meteor Activity and Velocity.- Meteor Showers Originated from 73P/SchwassmannWachmann.- The Lyrid Meteor Stream: Orbit and Structure.- Model Radiants of the Geminid Meteor Shower.- The Orionid Meteor Shower Observed Over 70?Years.- Activities of Parent Comets and Related Meteor Showers.- Search for Past Signs of October Ursae Majorids.- The P/Halley Stream: Meteor Showers on Earth, Venus and Mars.- Multi-station Video Orbits of Minor Meteor Showers.- Exceptional Fireball Activity of Orionids in 2006.- Video Observations of the 2006 Leonid Outburst.- Predictions for the Aurigid Outburst of 2007 September 1.- Characterization of the Meteoroid Spatial Flux Density during the 1999 Leonid Storm.- On the Substantial Spatial Spread of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream.- Lunar Gravitational Focusing of Meteoroid Streams and Sporadic Sources.- Comparison of Meteoroid Flux Models for Near Earth Space.- Dynamical Effects of Mars on Asteroidal Dust Particles.- Determination of the Velocity of Meteors Based on Sinodial Modulation and Frequency Analysis.- The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar Meteor StlÓ4