CEDAR email: CEDAR Workshop: Invitation to participate in Meteoroids and Space Debris

[Sigrid Close]

Dear CEDAR community,

We would like to invite you to participate in the Meteoroids and Space Debris<http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2021_Workshop:Meteoroids_and_Space_Debris> workshop that will take place on Friday 6/25/21 from 10-noon Mountain time.  We look forward to seeing you and hearing about your work.

Thank you,
Best wishes,
Julio Urbina and Sigrid Close

Description

A meteoroid is defined as a small, solid extraterrestrial object. Upon entry into a planet’s atmosphere, it heats and ablates off particles that then collide with the background neutrals, forming a dense plasma that extends around the meteoroid as well as behind it. These plasmas, referred to as meteors, have been studied for well over a century, yet many outstanding questions remain. In addition, space debris, also known as orbital debris, space junk, and space waste, is the collection of objects in orbit around Earth that were created by humans but no longer serve any useful purpose. These artificial meteors/Debris and meteoroids of astronomic origin are a long-standing threat to satellites, and both contribute to the flux of macroscopic particles into Earth's atmosphere. To address the outstanding questions currently under investigation in the field of meteor, meteoroid and debris science and engineering, we invite presentations on the physics of meteoroid and debris particles and their impacts effects on the atmosphere, ionosphere, and satellites. We also encourage presentations that address the engineering techniques for observing and characterizing the meteoroid and debris population, including any observational (i.e. lidar, radar, satellite and optical) or modeling method.


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