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ESA/RSSD Meteor Research Group | | The Research and Science Support Department (RSSD) of the European Space Agency (ESA) started to get involved in meteor astronomy in the beginning of 1998. We concentrate on the ground-based observation of meteors, mainly with image-intensified video cameras, also called low light-level TV cameras (LLTV systems). RSSD is mainly concerned with space-based experiments, one group of them being dust detectors. We are also involved in the Rosetta mission, on the way to comet P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkov in 2004. Therefore, our main science interests in meteor astronomy are: - to link the physical properties of the particles producing the meteors to their parent body (comet or asteroid)
- to understand the distribution and evolution of dust in the solar system
| The core team at ESA/RSSD and SRE-O is 
| | | Image to come | Joe Zender
| | | Kees van der Luijt
| | Additional supported comes/came from | Past members - Geert Barentsen
 - Francisco Ocana Gonzalez
Julia M. de la Parra  Maria Gritsevich Christian Erd Benedikt Ernst Margaret Campbell-Brown
Jorge Diaz del Rio Trevor Sanderson   Lusia Maria Lara Phillip Reissaus Thomas Westphal Felicitas Mokler Michael Schmidhuber Luis Neira - Jean-Pierre Lebreton
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