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Meteors and Meteor Showers   An Amateur's Guide to Meteors - by Peter V. Bias

This recently published book, Meteors and Meteor Showers, is a wonderful resource for learning about meteors, what they are, when to best view them and even how to take part in scientific observations! It is a compilation of more than 30 years of experience observing and studying meteors by the author Peter Bias and includes input from several of the world's most prominent meteor scientists as they discuss findings from the recent 1998 - 2002 Leonid meteor storms.

A meteor is one of nature's most breathtaking views and can spark anyone's curiosity and imagination to no end. This book is written for everyone, covering all ranges of expertise from the complete novice to even the well seasoned meteor observer. If you are curious about meteors, you should certainly start with this book!

Some of the images found within this site were included in the book which for me was quite a thrill! Thanks Peter!

History Channel   Comets: Prophets of Doom

History Channel   Meteors, Fire In The Sky

Earth, Moon, and Planets
(co-author) Results from the AIM-IT Meteor Tracking System - Link
ISSN: 0167-9295 (Paper) 1573-0794 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-005-1255-5
Issue: Volume 95, Numbers 1-4
Date: December 2005
Pages: 541 - 552

Modern Meteor Science An Interdisciplinary View
Results from the AIM-IT Meteor Tracking System Link
Publisher    Springer Netherlands
DOI    10.1007/1-4020-5075-5
Copyright 2005
ISBN   978-1-4020-4374-1 (Print) 978-1-4020-5075-6 (Online)
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-5075-5_50
Pages 541-552
Online Date Friday, August 18, 2006

Proceedings SOFIA Upper Deck Science Opportunities Workshop
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, June 22-23, 2004
(co-author) AIM-IT: RAPID POINTING TO METEORS IN AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS - Link

Sky and Telescope - images

Astronomy Magazine - images

Science News - Dec 22&29, 2001 - images

Presentations:

Meteoroids 2004 University of Western Ontario - Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Results of the AIM-IT Meteor Tracking System abstract P. S. Gural, P. Jenniskens, G. Varros (co-author but not present)

2002 Leonid MAC Conference - AMES Research Center, Mountainview California
AIM-IT Results

2000 Leonid MAC Conference - Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Leonids Live an Outreach Activity


Things I worked on for NASA:

Varros, George and James Chi. Send Your Name to Mars. Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1998. TL799 .M3 S46 1998 CDROM