2004
DOI: 10.1089/153110704773600285
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Hydrogen Emission in Meteors as a Potential Marker for the Exogenous Delivery of Organics and Water

Abstract: We detected hydrogen Balmer-alpha (H a ) emission in the spectra of bright meteors and investigated its potential use as a tracer for exogenous delivery of organic matter. We found that it is critical to observe the meteors with high enough spatial resolution to distinguish the 656.

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“…Evidence of both glacial ages and of waters arriving from outside the Earth to drawn it, remaining on it most specially the ones from the second flooding, I think, are the waters found in the dark side of the moon (Colaprete et al, 2010), where its dark pole is located (Duke, 2002), and in the south pole of mars (Mackenzie, 2002), plus its dried rivers and lakes (Kerr, 2000), water in Io (Salama et al, 1990), and in other moons of Jupiter and of other planets (Sammonds, 2006), and both in the Kuiper belt (Jewitt and Luu, 2004), and in the Oort comet cloud (Hsieh and Jewitt, 2006) in the outermost part of the Solar System mostly composed of gigantic frozen ice-cubes like Eris (Bertoldi et al, 2006; Sicardy et al, 2011), Ceres (Thomas et al, 2005), Pluto (Ridpath, 1978), now removed from the status of planet (Spahr, 2006), and many others (Grundy et al, 2009); H 2 O also in the colorful nebula/nebulae (Miranda et al, 2001) and in comets (Meier et al, 1998), meteors/meteorites (Jenniskens and Mandell, 2004), asteroids (Rivkin and Emery, 2010), and regoliths (Seshadri et al, 2008), etc., being the water in them the one that evaporates, forming their characteristic long comet-tails, making them smaller and smaller every time… As a matter of fact, the presence of water all over the outer space beyond our atmosphere is so overwhelming that it deserves its own and careful review.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Evidence of both glacial ages and of waters arriving from outside the Earth to drawn it, remaining on it most specially the ones from the second flooding, I think, are the waters found in the dark side of the moon (Colaprete et al, 2010), where its dark pole is located (Duke, 2002), and in the south pole of mars (Mackenzie, 2002), plus its dried rivers and lakes (Kerr, 2000), water in Io (Salama et al, 1990), and in other moons of Jupiter and of other planets (Sammonds, 2006), and both in the Kuiper belt (Jewitt and Luu, 2004), and in the Oort comet cloud (Hsieh and Jewitt, 2006) in the outermost part of the Solar System mostly composed of gigantic frozen ice-cubes like Eris (Bertoldi et al, 2006; Sicardy et al, 2011), Ceres (Thomas et al, 2005), Pluto (Ridpath, 1978), now removed from the status of planet (Spahr, 2006), and many others (Grundy et al, 2009); H 2 O also in the colorful nebula/nebulae (Miranda et al, 2001) and in comets (Meier et al, 1998), meteors/meteorites (Jenniskens and Mandell, 2004), asteroids (Rivkin and Emery, 2010), and regoliths (Seshadri et al, 2008), etc., being the water in them the one that evaporates, forming their characteristic long comet-tails, making them smaller and smaller every time… As a matter of fact, the presence of water all over the outer space beyond our atmosphere is so overwhelming that it deserves its own and careful review.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the fact that the hydrogen line intensity stays in constant ratio to N atom emission, and not to the metal recombination line emission, we conclude that atmospheric hydrogen is responsible. An abundance of 72 ppm was derived, which is only a factor of 4-6 above that expected (Jenniskens and Mandell, 2004).…”
Section: Meteor Chemistrymentioning
confidence: 88%
“…The Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid MAC) has facilitated the deployment of modern observing techniques during the 1998-2002 Leonid storms (Jenniskens and Russell, 2003). The high altitude perspective and transport to the best possible site, provided ideal observing conditions.…”
Section: Recent Optical Spectroscopy Of Meteorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…(2003) presented the first far-ultraviolet spectrum of a meteor and detected atomic carbon lines for the first time. Jenniskens & Mandell (2004) discussed the origin of hydrogen in meteor spectra. The search for CN in Leonid spectra was unsuccessful (Jenniskens et al 2004a) but two systems of N + 2 were found (Jenniskens et al 2004b, Abe et al 2005a.…”
Section: Meteors Meteorites and Interplanetary Dustmentioning
confidence: 99%