Observational facilities:
Skalnaté Pleso Observatory - a 61 cm reflector with a CCD camera,
an all sky fireball fish-eye camera;
Modra Observatory - a receiver of a forward scatter meteor radar.
Research activities:
- theoretical investigation of transfer orbits among different populations
of small bodies in the Solar System regarding near-Earth objects,
- photometry and astrometry of asteroids,
- photometry and astrometry of comets,
- investigation of the activity of selected cometary nuclei and its influence on
the physical and dynamical evolution of these bodies,
- a search for meteoroid streams of an asteroidal origin,
- investigation of the meteoroid population in the vicinity of the
Earth's orbit,
- determination of the composition and physical properties of cosmic dust
particles provided by NASA,
- description of the distribution of meteoroid particles in the inner
Solar System,
- study of the structure of selected meteor showers,
- study of the structure and dynamics of meteoroid streams and evolution of their
parent bodies,
- theoretical investigation of meteor head echoes from the Springhill
high-power meteor radar,
- identification of the meteor sporadic background activity by a forward
scatter radio system,
- detection of ozone in the upper mesosphere with ground based radio
observations,
- operation of fireball fish-eye cameras within the framework of the European
Fireball Network.
Jan Rybak
2003-06-06