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Dr. Martin Beech,
Campion College, The University of Regina, Canada.
Last updated: October 2001
E-mail: martin.Beech [at] uregina.ca
Homepage: http://uregina.ca/~astro/mbeech.html
Brief Biographical Information:
Assistant Professor at Campion College, at the University of Regina (Department of Physics),
Regina, SK, in
the heart of the Canadian prairies, since January 1997.
B.Sc., M.Sc (Sussex, UK), Ph.D. in astronomy (Western Ontario)
Research Interests:
- Meteor astronomy
- Fireball phenomena: VLF radio
- Emission & light flickering
- The distribution of meteoroids within the Solar System
- Leonid meteor storm hazard assessment
- The Peekskill fireball
- The history of science
- The life and works of W. F. Denning
Research on Leonid MAC:
Light Curves, Satellite Impact Hazard issue
In an observing effort executed by Ian Murray,and in collaboration with Bob Hawkes of
Mount Allison University,
we have used dual coaxial microchannel plate image intensified monochrome CCD detectors run at standard
NTSC frame rates (30 fps) to study the Leonid meteor shower during the 1998 and 1999 Leonid MAC missions.
In the 1999 Leonid MAC, we discovered that the lightcurves tended to differ from those in the 1998 campaign,
suggesting that meteoroids fragmented differently.
In future missions, we will continue to study the morphological
changes as a function of different positions in the comet dust trails and as a function of age since ejection.
Publications on the satellite impact hazard issue include:
M. Beech, R. Jehn, P. Brown, J. Jones: Satellite Impact Probabilities: Annual
Showers and the 1965 and 1966 Leonid Storms. Acta Astronautica (1999), 44 (5), 281
M. Beech, P. Brown, J. Jones, A.R. Webster: The danger to satellites from
meteor storms. Advances in Space Research (1997), 20 (8), 1509.
M. Beech, P. Brown: Impact Probabilities on Artificial Satellites for the
1993 Perseid Meteoroid Stream. Mont. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. (1993), 262, L35.
M. Beech, Large Meteoroids in the Leonid Stream, The Astronomical Journal (1998),
116, 499.
M. Beech, S. Nikolova: Leonid Flashes- meteoroid impacts on the Moon. Il Niovo
Cimento C (1998), 21, 577.
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