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Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface 1–3 T. J. JOPEK, G. B. VALSECCHI AND CL. FROESCHLE´ / Possible meteoroid streams associated with (69230) Hermes and 2002 SY50 5–10 IWAN P. WILLIAMS, G. O. RYABOVA, A. P. BATURIN AND A. M. CHERNITSOV / Are Asteroid 2003 EH1 and Comet C/1490 Y1 Dynamically Related? 11–18 PAUL WIEGERT AND PETER BROWN / The problem of linking minor meteor showers to their parent bodies: initial con- siderations 19–26 JU¨ RGEN RENDTEL / Evolution of the Geminids Observed Over 60 Years 27–32 A. R. HILDEBR, R. D. CARDINAL, K. A. CARROLL, D. R. FABER, E. F. TEDESCO, J. M. MATTHEWS, R. KUSCHNIG, G. A. H. WALK- ER, B. GLADMAN, J. PAZDER, P. G. BROWN, S. M. LARSON, S. P. WORDEN, B. J. WALLACE, P. W. CHODAS, K. MUINONEN AND A. CHENG / Advantages of Searching for Asteroids from Low Earth Orbit: The Neossat Mission 33–40 S. STARCZEWSKI AND T. J. JOPEKDynamical Relation of Me- teorids to Comets and Asteroids 41–47 JUN-ICHI WATANABE / Meteor Streams and Comets 49–61 SANG-HYEON AHN / Meteoric Activities of the Last Millennium 63–68 JA´ N SVORE, LUBOSˇ NESLUSˇ AN, ZUZANA KAUCHOVA´ AND VLA- DIMI´ R PORUBAN / A Fine Structure of the Perseid Me- teoroid Stream 69–74 J. VAUBAILLON, P. LAMY AND L. JORDA / Meteoroid Streams Associated to Comets 9P/TEMPEL 1 and 67P/CHUR- YUMOV-GERASIMENKO 75–80 PAUL WIEGERT AND PETER BROWN / The Core of the Quadrantid Meteoroid Stream is Two Hundred Years Old 81–88 LARS P. DYRUD, KELLY DENNEY, JULIO URBINA, DIEGO JAN- CHES, ERHAN KUDEKI AND STEVE FRANKE / The Meteor Flux: It Depends How You Look 89–100 CSILLA SZASZ, JOHAN KERO, ASTA PELLINEN-WANNBERG, JOHN D. MATHEWS, NICK J. MITCHELL AND WERNER SINGER / Latitudinal Variations of Diurnal Meteor Rates 101–107 V. DIKAREV, E. GRU¨ N, J. BAGGALEY, D. GALLIGAN, M. LAND- GRAF AND R. JEHN / Modeling the Sporadic Meteoroid Background Cloud 109–122 H. MCNAMARA, R. SUGGS, B. KAUFFMAN, J. JONES, W. COOKE AND S. SMITH / Meteoroid Engineering Model (MEM): A Meteoroid Model For The Inner Solar System 123–139 DANIELLE E. MOSER AND WILLIAM J. COOKE / MSFC Stream Model Preliminary Results: Modeling Recent Leonid and Perseid Encounters 141–153 V. SIDOROV, S. KALABANOV, S. SIDOROVA AND I. FILIN / Micro- shower Structure of the Meteor Complex 155–164 V. SIDOROV, S. KALABANOV, S. SIDOROVA, I. FILIN AND T. FILI- MONOVA / Associations of Meteor Microshowers or as the Kazan Radar ‘‘Sees’’ Radiants on Northern Celestial Hemisphere 165–179 J. TO´ TH AND J. KLAKA / Fragmentation of Leonids in space and a model of spatial distribution of meteoroids within the Leo- nid stream 181–186 R. L. HAWKES AND R. A. EATON / Mass Flux of Asteroidal Origin Meteoroids on Periodic Comet Nuclei 187–195 W. J. BAGGALEY / Interstellar dust in the solar system 197–209 R. SRAMA, A. SROWIG, M. RACHEV, E. GRU¨ N, S. KEMPF, G. MOR- AGAS-KLOSTERMEYER T. CONLON, D.HARRIS, S.AUER, A. GLASMACHERS, S. HELFERT, H. LINNEMANN, AND V. TSCHERNJAWSKI / Development of an Advanced Dust Telescope 211–220 R. J. WERYK AND P. BROWN / A Search for Interstellar Meteoroids Using the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) 221–227 SVITLANA V. KOLOMIYETS AND BORIS L. KASHCHEYEV / Com- plex of Meteoroid Orbits with Eccentricities Near 1 and Higher 229–235 L. A. ROGERS, K. A. HILL AND R. L. HAWKES / Optical Predictions for High Geocentric Velocity Meteors 237–244 JII´ BOROVIKA / Elemental Abundances in Leonid and Perseid Meteoroids 245–253 DETLEF KOSCHNY, JORGE DIAZ DEL RIO, RODRIGUE PIBERNE, MAREK SZUMLAS, JOE ZENDER AND ANDRE´ KNO¨ FEL / Radiants of the Leonids 1999 and 2001 Obtained by LLTV Systems Using Automatic Software Tools 255–263 SHINSUKE ABE, NOBORU EBIZUKA, HIDEYUKI MURAYAMA, KATSUHITO OHTSUKA, SATORU SUGIMOTO, MASA-YUKI YAMAMOTO, HAJIME YANO, JUN-ICHI WATANABE AND JII´ BOROVIKA / Video and Photographic Spectroscopy of 1998 and 2001 Leonid Persistent Trains from 300 to 930 nm 265–277 MASA-YUKI YAMAMOTO, MASAYUKI TODA, YOSHIHIRO HIGA, KOUJI MAEDA AND JUN-ICHI WATANABE / Altitudinal Distribution Of 20 Persistent Meteor Trains: Estimates Derived from Metro Campaign Archives 279–287 A. J. FALOON, J. D. THALER AND R. L. HAWKES / Searching for Light Curve Evidence of Meteoroid Structure and Fragmentation 289–295 M. D. CAMPBELL-BROWN / Arietid Meteor Orbits Measurements 297–301 OLGA POPOVA / Meteoroid ablation models 303–319 FRANS J. M. RIETMEIJER / Interplanetary Dust and Carbonaceous Meteorites: Constraints on Porosity, Mineralogy and Chemistry of Meteors from Rubble-Pile Planetesimals 321–338 PETER JENNISKENS, PAUL WERCINSKI, JOE OLEJNICZAK, GEORGE RAICHE, DEAN KONTINOS, GARY ALLEN, PRA- SUN N. DESAI, DOUG REVELLE, JASON HATTON, RICHARD L. BAKER, RAY W. RUSSELL, MIKE TAYLOR AND FRANS RIETMEIJER / Preparing For Hyperseed MAC: An Obser- ving Campaign To Monitor The Entry Of The Genesis Sample Return Capsule 339–360 GEORGE J. FLYNN / Physical Properties of Meteorites and Inter- planetary Dust Particles: Clues to the Properties of the Meteors and their Parent Bodies 361–374 J. M. TRIGO-RODRI´ GUEZ, J. LLORCA, J. BOROVIKA AND J. FAB- REGAT / Spectroscopy of a Geminid Fireball: Its Similarity to Cometary Meteoroids and the Nature of its Parent Body 375–387 MARTIN BEECH AND MEGAN HARGROVE / Classical Meteor Light Curve Morphology 389–394 D. YU. KHANUKAEVA AND G. A. TIRSKIY / A Model of Single and Fragmenting Meteoroid Interaction with Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Atmosphere 395–402 K. A. HILL, L. A. ROGERS AND R. L. HAWKES / Sputtering and High Altitude Meteors 403–412 LAURA SCHAEFER AND BRUCE FEGLEY JR.Application of an Equilibrium Vaporization Model to the Ablation of Chondritic and Achondritic Meteoroids 413–423 APOSTOLOS A. CHRISTOU / Predicting Martian and Venusian Meteor Shower Activity 425–431 D. YU. KHANUKAEVA / Calculation of Variable Drag and Heat- Transfer Coefficients in Meteoric Physics Equations 433–439 D. O. REVELLE / Recent Advances in Bolide Entry Modeling: A Bolide Potpourri 441–476 PAVEL SPURN AND ZDENEK CEPLECHA / Fragmentation Model Analysis of EN270200 Fireball 477–487 M. D. CAMPBELL-BROWN AND A. HILDEBRAND / A New Analysis of Fireball Data from the Meteorite Observation and Re- covery Project (MORP) 489–499 WAYNE N. EDWARDS, PETER G. BROWN AND DOUGLAS O. RE- VELLE / Bolide Energy Estimates from Infrasonic Mea- surements 501–512 G. A. TIRSKIY AND D.YU. KHANUKAEVA / The Modeling of Bo- lide Terminal Explosions 513–520 M. D. CAMPBELL-BROWN / Optical Observations of Meteors 521–531 WESLEY R. SWIFT, ROBERT M. SUGGS AND WILLIAM J. COOKE / Meteor44 Video Meteor Photometry 533–540 PETER S. GURAL, PETER M. JENNISKENS AND GEORGE VARROS / Results from the AIM-IT meteor tracking system 541–552 J. M. TRIGO-RODRI´ GUEZ, A. J. CASTRO-TIRADO, J. LLORCA, J. FABREGAT, V. J. MARTI´ NEZ, V. REGLERO, M. JELI´ NEK, P. KUBA´ NEK, T. MATEO AND A. DE UGARTE POSTIGO / The Development of the Spanish Fireball Network Using a New All-Sky CCD System 553–567 PAVEL SPURN, JII´ BOROVIKA AND PAVEL KOTEN / Multi-Instru- ment Observations of Bright Meteors in the Czech Republic 569–578 N. KAISER, P. BROWN AND R. L. HAWKES / Optical Trail Width Measurements of Faint Meteors 579–586 R. L. HAWKES, P. G. BROWN, N. R. KAISER, A. J. FALOON, K. A. HILL AND L. A. ROGERS / High Spatial and Temporal Re- solution Optical Search for Evidence of Meteoroid Frag- mentation 587–593 Y. FUJIWARA, M. UEDA, M. SUGIMOTO, T. SAGAYAMA AND S. ABE / TV Observation of the Daytime Meteor Shower; the Arietids 595–600 W. J. BAGGALEY AND J. GRANT / Techniques for Measuring Radar Meteor Speeds 601–615 P. BROWN, J. JONES, R. J. WERYK AND M. D. CAMPBELL-BROWN / The Velocity Distribution of Meteoroids at the Earth as Measured by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) 617–626 ASTA PELLINEN-WANNBERG, EDMOND MURAD, GUDMUND WANNBERG AND ASSAR WESTMAN / The Hyperthermal Ionization and High Absolute Meteor Velocities Observed with HPLA Radars 627–632 JOHAN KERO, CSILLA SZASZ, ASTA PELLINEN-WANNBERG, GUDMUND WANNBERG AND ASSAR WESTMAN / Power Fluctuations in Meteor Head Echoes Observed with the EISCAT VHF Radar 633–638 K. DREW, P. G. BROWN, S. CLOSE AND D. DURAND / Meteoroid Bulk Density Determination Using Radar Head Echo Observa- tions 639–645 W. J. BAGGALEY AND J. GRANT / Radar Measurements of Me- teoroid Decelerations 647–654 W. J. BAGGALEY AND J. GRANT / Radar Measurements of Macro Fragmentation in Meteoroids 655–662 W. J. BAGGALEY, G. E. PLANK, L. TOMLINSON AND J. GRANT / Radar Campaign to Determine the Dependence of Initial Radii of Meteor Plasma Trains on Trajectory and Orbit 663–669 W. K. HOCKING / Experimental Radar Studies of Anisotropic Diffusion of High Altitude Meteor Trails 671–679 P. PECINA, D. PECINOVA´ , V. PORUBAN AND J. TOTH / Radar Ob- servations of Taurid Complex Meteor Showers in 2003: Activity and Mass Distribution 681–688 D. PECINOVA´ AND P. PECINA / Radar Meteors Range Distribution and Some Parameters of Meteoroids: Application to Per- seids and b Taurids Showers 689–696 V. PORUBAN, L. KORNOSˇ AND I.P. WILLIAMS / Associations be- tween asteroids and meteoroid streams 697–711 A. R. WEBSTER AND J. JONES / Single and Multi-Station Radar Observations of the Geminid/Sextantid Meteor Stream System 713–721 PETER JENNISKENS / On the Future Prospects of Meteor Detec- tions (Invited Review) 723–732.
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