News_2012-05-01 - Meteor

CILBO - First science results

2012 May: We presented the first science results of our meteor camera setup at the Asteroids, Comets, Meteors conference 2011 in Niigata, Japan.

We have analyzed the light curves of the Geminids - see here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/acm2012/pdf/6140.pdf.

The image at the right shows a 3-D plot of the orbits as determined from the two cameras. The typical astrometric accuracy of the data is better than 1 arcminute.

The plot shows all meteors marked as Geminids by our detection software MetRec (Molau 1999). The blue line is the orbit of the Earth. Note that there is one obvious non-Geminid there...