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Minor bodies in the Solar System and their interaction with the Earth_23
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Minor bodies in the Solar System and their interaction with the Earth
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Teachers
- Daniele Gardiol (Lecturer)
Dario Barghini (Lecturer) - Degree course
- PhD in Physics
- Year
- 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Related or integrative
- Credits/Recognition
- 4
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- FIS/05 - astronomy and astrophysics
- Delivery
- Traditional
- Language
- Italian
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The course aims at providing an introduction to Minor Bodies in the Solar System with particular attention to Near Earth Objects, that can produce bright Meteors (Fireballs), and observational methods aimed at detemination of fireballs physical parameters value and recovery of Meteorites.
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Results of learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
- fundamental concepts in Minor Bodies of the Solar System
- fundamental concepts in Near Earth Objects and their interaction with the Earth
- fundamental concepts in Meteor and Fireball Observation methods and techniques
- fundamental concepts in Meteorites science
Applying knowledge and understanding
- ability to understand format and content of meteor data
- ability to analyse meteor data
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Program
Lessons plan (8 modules of 2 hours each):Wednesdays from 6th March to 24th April 2024, h 11-13Spare time: 8th and 15th May 2024Place: Sala Fubini Dipartimento di Fisica (5° piano edificio nuovo)unless otherwise reported1. 06/03: Aula Fubini - General Overview2. 15/03: Aula Fubini - Near Earth Objects3. 19/03: Aula D - Introduction to meteors phenomena, Optical observation of meteors4. 22/03: Aula Wataghin - Physics of meteor phenomena and the PRISMA Network5. 03/04: Aula Fubini - Data Analysis of optical observations6. 11/04: Aula Fubini - Alternative observation methods: Radio, Acoustic, Seismic, ...7. 15/04: Aula Wick - Interstellar meteoroids and meteors8. 18/04: Aula Fubini - Meteorites and recovery of asteroid samples- Oggetto:
Course delivery
Eight lessons, once a week, from Wednesday 6th March to 24th April 2024
Place: Sala Fubini Dipartimento di Fisica (5° piano edificio nuovo)- Oggetto:
Learning assessment methods
The final exam will consist in a powerpoint-style presentation delivered by the student, in which one of the topics treated in (or related to) the course will be expanded.
In preparing her/his presentation, the candidate will have the possibility to refer to both the lecture notes provided by the teachers and integrative articles from the state-of-the-art literature in the field.
After the presentation (of the duration of approximately 15-20 min), an open discussion will follow between the candidate and the teachers, which will determine the exam outcome (pass/reject)
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Meteoroids - Sources of Meteors on Earth and Beyond
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Author:
- Galina O. Ryabova, David J. Asher, Margaret D. Campbell-Brown
- ISBN
- Required:
- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Meteor Science and Engineering
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- 1961
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc.
- Author:
- D.W.R. McKinley
- Chapters:
- Ch. 4 Radio Techniques, Ch. 8 Radio Echo Theory, Ch. 9 Forward-scatter from Meteor Trails
- Notes:
- Available at the Library of INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
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- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Treatise on Geochemistry
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Ltd.
- Author:
- Heinrich D. Holland, Karl K. Turekian
- ISBN
- Chapters:
- Volumes I and II
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- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Physics of Meteoric Phenomena
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- 1983
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- Dordrect: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
- Author:
- Bronshten, V.A.
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- Required:
- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Encyclopedia of the Solar System
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- 2007
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- Elsevier Inc.
- Author:
- Lucy-Ann McFadden, Paul R. Weissman, Torrence V. Johnson
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- Chapters:
- Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 18, Ch. 30, Ch. 31, Ch. 32, Ch. 42,
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- Available at the Library of INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
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- No
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- Book
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- Atlas of Meteorites
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- 2013
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Author:
- Monica M. Grady, Giovanni Pratesi, Vanni Moggi Cecchi
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- Notes:
- Available at the Library of INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
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- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Meteor Phenomena and Bodies
- Year of publication:
- 1998
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Author:
- Ceplecha, Zdeněk ; Borovička, Jiří; Elford, W. Graham ; Revelle, Douglas O. ; Hawkes, Robert L. ; Porubčan, Vladimír ; Šimek, Miloš
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- No
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Selected papers on the topic:
Bottke et al., 2006, «The Yarkovsky and Yorp Effects: Implications for Asteroid Dynamics»
Ceplecha, 1987, «Geometric, Dynamic, Orbital and Photometric Data on Meteoroids From Photographic Fireball Networks»
Colas et al., 2020, «FRIPON: a worldwide network to track incoming meteoroids»
DeMeo et al., 2009, «An extension of the Bus asteroid taxonomy into the near-infrared»
Gardiol, et al., 2021, «Cavezzo, the first Italian meteorite recovered by the PRISMA fireball network. Orbit, trajectory, and strewn-field»
Greenwood et al., 2020, «Linking asteroids and meteorites to the primordial planetesimal population»
Gritsevitch et al., 2011, «Constraining the luminous efficiency of meteors»
Hajdukova et al., 2020, «The challenge of identifying interstellar meteors»
Le Pichon et al., 2013, «The 2013 Russian fireball largest ever detected by CTBTO infrasound sensors»
Popova et al., 2013, «Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization»
Pratesi et al., 2021, «Cavezzo—The double face of a meteorite: Mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of a very unusual chondrite»- Enroll
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