Hits : 9
Effects of Meteor-Impacts on Stationary Satellites
K. Purbosiswojo,
Data & Software Engineering Research Group
STEI-ITB, Jl. Ganeca No.10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
Email :
Abstract. In this paper the changes of the orbital elements of stationary satellites due to meteor-impacts are discussed. From these changes in principle one should be able to draw the conclusion whether or not there exist a correlation between meteor-mass and velocity.It has been shown here, how to detect and estimate an increase in space-density and the velocity-vector of any meteor stream T which the satellite traverses. Numerical results, however, show that effects of meteor-impacts can be neglected at all.
Keywords: astronomy
 Download Article
|
