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AMISR in Africa Workshop
03/01/12 – Boston College Jonathan T. Fentzke http://www.cora.nwra.com/~fentzke
Potential Meteor / Dusty Plasma
Studies in the African Sector
Why Do We Care…
PFISR
RISR SONDY
AO
JRO
AIRES
ALTAIR
Millstone
MU
MAARSY
EISCAT
E-AMISR?
NSF Foreign
Impossible To Get Data
AMISR Manifest Destiny? …The System Science is Incomplete
MAMISR?
Proposed
AMISR Type
Meteor Input Function (MIF)
MIF Properties Flux, Mass
Velocity,
Composition
Angular Distribution
Sources
MIF Relates To: Plasma Physics
Metal Layers
Chemistry
Impact Hazards
Spacecraft charging
Heady Universe Stuff
Head-Echoes
Specular Trails
Non-Specular Trails
…Cool stuff happens ⊥B
Meteoric
Smoke
Meteors: MIF properties Head-echo scatter properties Trails
• Specular trails • Non-specular trails
Meteor Smoke: Size, Number Density Transport Charging Properties / Micro-physics
Ion-Neutral collisions / Coulomb collisions
What We Don’t Know…