2007 Meteoroid Environment Workshop

31-Jan
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8:30     Introduction  8:45     Welcome  9:00     Why we are here	John Lyver, NASA HQ, OSMA Dave Edwards, EV13 Branch Chief Bill Cooke, Lead, Meteoroid Environment Office
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9:45     Break
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10:00     Constellation Meteoroid Design Requirements 10:20     MEM Release 1 10:50     Gravitational focusing	Rob Suggs, Space Environments Team Lead Heather McNamara, EV13/Meteoroid Environments Office Mark Matney, Orbital Debris Program Office
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11:10     Lunch
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13:00     The ALTAIR Meteor Measurements Program 13:20     Issues regarding meteoroid models 13:40     Meteor showers and their parent comets 14:00     Updates to the MSFC Stream Model 14:20     Orbital element distribution of large asteroidal               dust particles in near-Earth space	Steve Hunt, MIT Lincoln Laboratories J.C. Liou, Orbital Debris Program Office -Jacobs/Sverdrup Peter Jenniskens, SETI Institute Danielle Moser, UNITeS/Stanley Thomas Kehoe, University of Florida
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14:40     Break
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14:55     Planetary perturbations vs PR drag for meteoroids from JFCs: a first look 15:15     Photometric Meteor Masses 15:35     Meteor44 – Software for meteor photometry 15:55     High resolution observations on meteors with               the EISCAT radars and the ALIS imager network 16:15     Comparison of Specular and JRO Head Echo Meteor Data and Implication for Meteoroid Population Studies 16:35     Adjourn	Paul Wiegert, University of Western Ontario Bob Hawkes, Mt. Allison University Wes Swift, Raytheon Asta Pellinen-Wannberg, Umeå University and Swedish Institute of Space Physics Meers Oppenheim, Boston University
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1-Feb
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8:30     The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar : Overview and First five years of Operations 8:50     Atmospheric behavior of meteor trails and their implications for radar measurements 9:10     Modeling the sporadic micrometeoroid influx in the upper atmosphere using radars 9:30     Determining meteoroid masses and densities using high-resolution, multi-frequency meteor data collected at ALTAIR	Peter Brown, University of Western Ontario Meers Oppenheim, Boston University Diego Janches, Colorado Research Associates Sigrid Close, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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9:50     Break
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10:05     Electromagnetic Scattering from Meteor-generated Spherical Plasmas with Finite Pressure and Collisional Effects 10:25     Comparisons of simultaneously detected radar and electro-optical meteors 10:45     Interstellar Origin Meteoroid Fluxes	Patrick Colestock, Los Alamos National Laboratory Rob Weryk, University of Western Ontario Bob Hawkes, Mt. Allison University
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11:00     Lunch
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13:00     The NASA Lunar Impact Monitoring Program 13:30     Impact Flash Photometry and Spectroscopy               from Laboratory Experiments: Implications                for Monitoring the Lunar Flux 13:50     Automated Detection of Lunar Impact Flashes 14:10     LunaCon – Software to detect lunar impacts	Rob Suggs, Space Environments Team Lead Peter Schultz, Brown University Peter Gural, SAIC Wes Swift, Raytheon
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14:30     Break
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14:45     Roundtable Discussion – What are the major gaps? 16:45     Adjourn 18:00     Reception – Space and Rocket Center Museum	All