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ESA/RSSD Meteor Research Group

The Research and Science Support Department (RSSD) of the European Space Agency (ESA) (formerly SSD, Space Science Department) 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 calles low lightlevel 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, being launched to comet P/Wirtanen in 2003. 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
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The core team at ESA/RSSD is

Detlef Koschny


Detlef Koschny

 Benedikt Ernst

Maria Gritsewich

 
Håkan Svedhem  

Jonathan Mc Auliffe

 
 Hans SmitHakan Svedhem Jonathan Mc Auliffe

Additional supported comes/came from

 Joe Zender Rita Schulz Gerhard Schwehm
 Christian Erd
Joe Zender Rita Schulz Gerhard Schwehm
 Jean-Pierre Lebreton 

Olivier Witasse

 Plus, of course, all the guys in the labs doing mechanical and electronical work!
 
 Jean-Pierre Lebreton Olivier Witasse  

Past members

  • Jorge Diaz del Rio
  • Trevor Sanderson
  • Lusia Maria Lara
  • Thomas Westphal
  • Felicitas Mokler
  • Michael Schmidhuber
  • Luis Neira
  • Geert Barentsen
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This page was first created on 16 October, 2006 and was last updated on 20 July, 2009.
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