2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Meteor statistics I: The distribution of instrumental magnitudes
Althea V. Moorhead, Peter G. Brown, Margaret D. Campbell-Brown +2
The distribution of meteor magnitudes is known to follow an exponential distribution, where the base of this distribution is called the population index. The distribution of observ…
astro-ph.EP2024
The threshold at which a meteor shower becomes hazardous to spacecraft
Althea V. Moorhead, William J. Cooke, Peter G. Brown +1
Although the risk posed to spacecraft due to meteoroid impacts is dominated by sporadic meteoroids, meteor showers can raise this risk for short periods of time. NASA's Meteoroid E…