Sandia Workshop Discussion Topics list

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Subject: Sandia Workshop Discussion Topics list
From: Thomas Ashcraft <72632.1427@compuservedot com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:17:49 -0400




Greetings once again.  Here is a tentative list of topics for the Sandia
Labs Meteor Impact workshop coming up the first week of June. ---Tom
Ashcraft 

                        DISCUSSION TOPICS

1. Status of satellite data releasability
2. 1995/1996 satellite bolide observations
3. Avenues for improving satellite visible-light sensor (VLS)
detection numbers
4. Avenues for improving satellite IR detection numbers
5. Deficiency of "small events" in the satellite data set
6. The NASA Air Sampling Program
7. Infrasonics--What can we learn about event from infrasonic signals?
Kinetic energy?  Altitude?  Location?  Other Characteristics?
8. Seismic sensors--Conditions required to expect responses
9. Hydroacoustic sensors--ditto
10. Stratospheric aerosols and noctilucent clouds--Potentials for
meteoroid-impact origins.  How many tons of matter are needed to make
a significant effect?
11. Methods for searching cislunar space and environs for potential small
impactors.
12. Status of GEODDS-based NEO-search tools
13. Refinements of Shoemaker-Levy observations
14. Recap of the St. Robert Meteorite Event, 15 June 1994
15. The 21 November 1995 Colorado Fireball
16. Luminous efficiency revisited.  L.E. as a function of size, velocity,
altitude.
17. Spectral properties of the Benesov and Sumava fireballs
18. Brontides: False Bolides?
19. Impact-like events:  Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1/18/94
                         Western Australia events, 1993/1994
                         Bell Island, Newfoundland, 4/2/78
                         Daytona Beach Mini-Tidal Wave, 7/3/92
20. Possible gas-explosion explanation for Tunguska
21. Approaches for getting more timely reporting of visually-observed
events to the satellite and ground-based sensor people