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(meteorobs) Leonid Meteroid Storm & Satellite Threat Conference



LEONID METEOROID STORM & SATELLITE THREAT CONFERENCE
 
The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Reentry
http://www.aero.org/conferences/leonid/
  
May 11-13, 1999
  
Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel
Manhattan Beach, California 
  
A symposium devoted to all aspects of meteoroids and their effects 
on spacecraft. 
  
General Information:
 
This three-day conference will be devoted to all aspects of 
meteoroids and their effects on spacecraft. The goals of the 
workshop are to: 
 
Provide feedback on what was learned from the 1998 Leonid storm. 
 
Present and disseminate new results on the meteoroid threat to
spacecraft. 
 
Bring technical and program people together to help assess the
threat. 
 
Acquaint the community with the latest information and analysis
tools. 
 
Develop interagency/organizational cooperation on future data
collects. 
 
Papers are solicited in the following areas: 
 
* The Leonid meteoroids: dynamics, composition, occurrence 
* History of meteoroid impacts on spacecraft 
* Orbital and meteoroid dynamics: 1997-2000 
* Hypervelocity impact phenomenology 
* Mitigation strategies 
* Anomaly classification 
* Civilian/Commercial vs. Military concerns 
* UV, Optical, IR and radar observations of the 1998 Leonid storm 
* Spacecraft anomalies resulting from 1998 micrometeoroid showers 
  and storms 
* Analysis tools 
* Insurance, legal and business perspectives 
 
Sponsors: The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Reentry
Debris Studies (CORDS) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and 
Astronautics. 
                       
Location: Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel, Manhattan Beach, CA 
                       
Classification: The meeting is unclassified and open to all. 
 
For more information, please contact leonid-conf@aero.org.

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