User profiles for W. J. Cooke

William J. Cooke

NASA Meteoroid Environments Office
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Diet of oceanic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the central North Pacific

DM Parker, WJ Cooke, GH Balazs - 2005 - aquadocs.org
… prey item of loggerhead sea turtles in the Azores and South Africa (Dodd, 1988) but was
first identified as a prey item in the Pacific Ocean in a preliminary unpublished report by Cooke

The flux of kilogram-sized meteoroids from lunar impact monitoring

RM Suggs, DE Moser, WJ Cooke, RJ Suggs - Icarus, 2014 - Elsevier
The flashes from meteoroid impacts on the Moon are useful in determining the flux of
impactors with masses as low as a few tens of grams. A routine monitoring program at NASA’s …

Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud

…, EK Sansom, MC Towner, J Tóth, WJ Cooke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Oort cloud is thought to be a reservoir of icy planetesimals and the source of long-period
comets (LPCs) implanted from the outer Solar System during the time of giant-planet …

The NASA lunar impact monitoring program

RM Suggs, WJ Cooke, RJ Suggs, WR Swift… - Advances in Meteoroid …, 2008 - Springer
NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office has implemented a program to monitor the Moon for
meteoroid impacts from the Marshall Space Flight Center. Using off-the-shelf telescopes and …

Reproduction, Growth, and Some Tolerances of Zoanthus Pacificus and Palythoa Vestitus in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

WJ Cooke - Coelenterate ecology and behavior, 1976 - Springer
Kaneohe Bay, on the island of Oahu, has for some time been recognized as a tropical reef
ecosystem under considerable stress from such insults as sewage pollution from outfalls in …

Meteor shower forecasting in near-Earth space

…, A Egal, PG Brown, DE Moser, WJ Cooke - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office produces an annual meteor shower forecast in order
to help spacecraft operators assess the risk posed by meteoroid streams. Previously, this …

A two-population sporadic meteoroid bulk density distribution and its implications for environment models

…, PG Brown, WJ Cooke - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The bulk density of a meteoroid affects its dynamics in space, its ablation in the atmosphere,
and the damage it does to spacecraft and lunar or planetary surfaces. Meteoroid bulk …

Outburst dust production of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1

MW Hosek, RC Blaauw, WJ Cooke… - The Astronomical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-aperture photometry of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 was conducted on
Johnson–Cousins R-band observations spanning 2011 May 1–9 and 2012 June 6–July 3. The …

The status of the NASA all sky fireball network

WJ Cooke, DE Moser - Proceedings of the International Meteor …, 2012 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Established by the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network
consists of 6 meteor video cameras in the southern United States, with plans to expand to 15 …

NASA meteoroid engineering model release 2.0

AV Moorhead, HM Koehler, WJ Cooke - 2015 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The Meteoroid Engineering Model release 2.0 (MEMR2) software is NASA's most current and
accurate model of the meteoroid environment. It enables the user to generate a trajectory-…