Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them
We all know that the pock marked face of the Moon looks the way it does because it was hit by meteors. But not many people know that this is still happening today. While the era of major impacts is over, lunar meteorites still cause flashes and puffs of gas, vaporized rock, and dust that we can obse...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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2009.
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| Series: | Astronomers' Observing Guides,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0324-2 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword. Introduction
- Part I: The Moon and Meteoroids. Widespread Evidence. Lunar Impact Features. Notable Collisions. A Catalogue of PIPs. Beyond the Moon
- Part II: An Observer's Guide to Lunar Meteor Impacts, Past and Present. A Practical Astronomer's Guide to Observing Lunar Features of Impact Origin. Impatcts Today. Lunar Transient Phenomena and Lunar Meteoroid Impacts. Lunar Impact Observation Programs. Observing Impacts as They Happen: Guidelines for Observing Lunar Meteoritic Phenomena. Helping to Find Collisions. Spurious Flashes. Future Directions in Lunar Meteor Impact Research
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix A: References. Appendix B: Equipment Checklist and Vendors. Appendix C: Details of Shortwave Time Signals for Astronomical Observations. Appendix D: Finding Limiting Magnitudes for Visual and Video Camera Observations. Appendix E: Standard Stars for Extinction Correction and Flux Calibration. Appendix F: Impact Plots.