Results from the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory
Abstract
Some recent results from the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory (CAMO) are presented. Comparing the begin heights and speeds of meteors between the two CAMO systems shows that the two populations, which differ by approximately an order of magnitude in mass, are quite different, with the more sensitive system recording many more slow meteors than the less sensitive system. At slow speeds for the more sensitive camera system, light curve shapes do not behave as expected, with stronger meteors having early-peaked light curves. Most meteoroids captured by the CAMO tracking system fragment in one way or another, and current ablation models are poor at predicting the nature of the fragmentation. The narrow field system is proving useful in many areas of meteor physics.
- Publication:
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International Meteor Conference Egmond, the Netherlands, 2-5 June 2016
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016pimo.conf...50C