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Meteor shower activity profiles and the use of orbital dissimilarity (D) criteria
Althea V. Moorhead
Orbital dissimilarity, or D, criteria are often used to select members of a meteor shower from a set of meteor observations. These criteria provide a quantitative description of th…
astro-ph.EP2019★ 1 cited
NASA's Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM) 3 and its ability to replicate spacecraft impact rates
Althea V. Moorhead, Aaron Kingery, Steven Ehlert
Meteoroids pose one of the largest risks to spacecraft outside of low Earth orbit. In order to correctly predict the rate at which meteoroids impact and damage spacecraft, environm…
astro-ph.EP2019
Meteor shower forecasting in near-Earth space
Althea V. Moorhead, Auriane Egal, Peter G. Brown +2
NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) produces an annual meteor shower forecast in order to help spacecraft operators assess the risk posed by meteoroid streams. Previously, th…