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 and 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,
- interrelations among the populations of small bodies in the Solar
System
and their evolution,
- description of the distribution of meteoroid particles in the inner
Solar System,
- study of the structure of selected meteor showers,
- 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,
- investigation of the light scattering of dust particles in the Solar
System and Earth atmosphere,
- search for hyperbolic and interstellar meteoroids using data from IAU
Meteor Data Center and other sources,
- study of meteorite properties.
Jan Rybak
2007-10-01