L. Foschini et G. Cevolani, IMPACT PROBABILITIES OF METEOROID STREAMS WITH ARTIFICIAL-SATELLITES - AN ASSESSMENT, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. C, Geophysics and space physics, 20(2), 1997, pp. 211-215
Impact probabilities of artificial satellites with meteoroid streams w
ere calculated using data collected with the CNR forward scatter (FS)
bistatic radar over the Bologna-Lecce baseline (about 700 km). Results
show that impact probabilities are 2 times higher than other previous
ly calculated values. Nevertheless, although catastrophic impacts are
still rare even in the case of meteor storm conditions, it is expected
that high meteoroid fluxes can erode satellites surfaces and weaken t
heir external structures.