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Aiming to create a new academic field through the university-based micro-planetary exploration project

November 11, 2020: A faint meteor was successfully observed simultaneously by Kiso Observatory Tomo-e Gozen and the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere MU radar.

The MU radar and Tomo-e Gozen detected 331 faint sporadic meteors simultaneously. The observations revealed a linear relationship between radar cross sections and optical brightness and confirmed that this collaboration is promising to investigate interplanetary dust in the vicinity of the Earth.

DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.105011