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Re: (meteorobs) mapping dust trails
Leo, your idea for a dust mapping probe sounds very creative to me! Maybe the
particles would be too small for mapping, but if a way could be found to do
that, then we could certainly learn quite a bit about, say, the leonid stream,
very quickly!
Kim Youmans
Leo Stachowicz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all the replies to my previous questions,and for making me feel
> at home :)
>
> Something else I have been puzzling over...
>
> From what I understand ,we now have a pretty good idea of the structure
> and locations of
> some cometary dust trails ,notably those giving rise to the Leonid showers.
> As far as I know,the vast majority of the data which has enabled our
> understanding comes from terrestrially based projects and observations...
>
> I'm curios as to wether there are any plans to map and perhaps investigate
> the trails in detail
> by a probe launched and equipped with sensitive radar ? (..or would the
> particles be to small and defuse for radar to map accurately ?)
>
> Seeing as we pass right through these trails on a regular basis ,the
> logistics of a mission like this (although still enormously complex) would
> be simplified by being able to launch in such close proximity to the
> objective,making it a worthy candidate for further investigation, would it
> not ?
>
> clear skys,
>
> Leo
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