© Martin Eriksson / Daniel Kastinen (illustration
Daniel Kastinen's thesis presents results that pave the way for future research and cross-disciplinary studies on meteors as well as on space debris and near-Earth asteroids.
Daniel Kastinen's thesis presents results that pave the way for future research and cross-disciplinary studies on meteors as well as on space debris and near-Earth asteroids.
Every day, 10-200 tons of material from space, consisting of dust- sized particles and larger pieces of material - meteoroids, fall into the Earth's atmosphere. These particles come from parent bodies such as comets and asteroids and thus date back to the time when the solar system was formed. When a meteoroid hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up in the form of a meteor, the material is dispersed in the atmosphere. Most of these meteors are invisible to the eye but can be detected by radar.
