The November 1999 Leonid meteor storm was videotaped on the grounds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas and at the JSC Observatory in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The videotapes were analyzed using a meteor analysis system developed at JSC. The results were compared to a Leonid meteor mass distribution model (Matney, 1998, unpublished data) used in risk assessment calculations associated with Space Shuttle missions. The observed data agrees favorably with the model in the .01 to.2 gram range. This comparison supports the continued use of this model..


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    Title :

    Leonid Meteors and Space Shuttle Risk Assessment


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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