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…