2010 – 2014 Charles University in Prague PhD in Theoretical physics and astronomy and astrophysics
Thesis title: Dynamics of small bodies in the Solar System: from dust particles to asteroids
Supervisor: David Vokrouhlický
2008 – 2010 Charles University in Prague MSc in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Thesis title: Recent asteroid breakups and accretion of interplanetary dust on the Earth
Supervisor: David Vokrouhlický
2005 – 2008 Charles University in Prague BSc in Physics
Thesis title: Irregular satellites of giant planets
Supervisor: David Vokrouhlický
PETR POKORNY
(RESEARCH ASSOCIATE)
| Email: | petr.pokorny@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.3668 |
| Org Code: | 667 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 667 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA |
Positions/Employment
Research Scholar
The Catholic University of America - Washington, DC, USA
September 2016 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Western Ontario - London, ON, Canada
October 2014 - August 2016
Education
Publications
Refereed
2022. "A Modeling Study of the Seasonal, Latitudinal, and Temporal Distribution of the Meteoroid Mass Input at Mars: Constraining the Deposition of Meteoric Ablated Metals in the Upper Atmosphere." The Planetary Science Journal 3 (239): 29 [https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac8540] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "EarthShine: Observing our world as an exoplanet from the surface of the Moon." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8 (01): 014003 [10.1117/1.jatis.8.1.014003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Erosion of volatiles by micro-meteoroid bombardment on Ceres, and comparison to the Moon and Mercury." Planetary Science Journal 2 85 [Full Text] [10.3847/PSJ/abef04] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "A Comparative Modeling Study of the Seasonal, Temporal, and Spatial Distribution of Meteoroids in the Upper Atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars." The Planetary Science Journal 1 (3): 59 [10.3847/psj/abba35] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Meteoroid Bombardment of Lunar Poles." Astrophysical Journal 894 (2): [https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab83ee] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Cosmic dust fluxes in the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus." Icarus 335 113395 [10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113395] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Modeling the Altitude Distribution of Meteor Head Echoes Observed with HPLA Radars: Implications for the Radar Detectability of Meteoroid Populations." The Astronomical Journal 157 (5): 179 [10.3847/1538-3881/ab0ec6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Co-orbital Asteroids as the Source of Venus's Zodiacal Dust Ring." The Astrophysical Journal 873 (2): L16 [10.3847/2041-8213/ab0827] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Meteoroids at the Moon: Orbital Properties, Surface Vaporization, and Impact Ejecta Production." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets [10.1029/2018je005912] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Impact Ejecta and Gardening in the Lunar Polar Regions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 124 (1): 143-154 [10.1029/2018je005756] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Impact ejecta environment of an eccentric asteroid: 3200 Phaethon." Planetary and Space Science 165 194-204 [10.1016/j.pss.2018.11.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "A Comprehensive Model of the Meteoroid Environment around Mercury." The Astrophysical Journal 863 (1): 31 [10.3847/1538-4357/aad051] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "A meteoroid stream survey using meteor head echo observations from the Middle Atmosphere ALOMAR Radar System (MAARSY)." Icarus 309 177-186 [10.1016/j.icarus.2018.02.032] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "A survey of southern hemisphere meteor showers." Planetary and Space Science [10.1016/j.pss.2018.02.013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Constraining the ratio of micrometeoroids from Short and Long Period Comets at 1 AU from LADEE observations of the Lunar Dust Cloud." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1002/2017gl076065] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Activity of the 2013 Geminid meteoroid stream at the Moon." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474 (3): 4225-4231 [10.1093/mnras/stx3007] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "CO oxidation and O 2 removal on meteoric material in Venus’ atmosphere." Icarus 296 150-162 [10.1016/j.icarus.2017.06.005] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Formation and past evolution of the showers of 96P/Machholz complex." Icarus [10.1016/j.icarus.2017.07.015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Measuring the Meteoroid Environments of the Planets with Meteor Detectors on Earth." The Astronomical Journal 154 (1): 36 [10.3847/1538-3881/aa77fe] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Radar Detectability Studies of Slow and Small Zodiacal Dust Cloud Particles. III. The Role of Sodium and the Head Echo Size on the Probability of Detection." The Astrophysical Journal 843 (1): 1 [10.3847/1538-4357/aa775c] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Reconciling the Dawn–Dusk Asymmetry in Mercury’s Exosphere with the Micrometeoroid Impact Directionality." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 842 (2): L17 [10.3847/2041-8213/aa775d] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "An Orbital Meteoroid Stream Survey using the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar (SAAMER) based on a Wavelet approach." Icarus (290): 162-182 [10.1016/j.icarus.2017.02.025] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "The age and the probable parent body of the daytime arietid meteor shower." Icarus 281 417-443 [10.1016/j.icarus.2016.08.017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Sources of Cosmic Dust in the Earth's Atmosphere." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1002/2016gl071697] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "A reproducible method to determine the meteoroid mass index." Astronomy & Astrophysics 592 A150 [10.1051/0004-6361/201628134] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Dormant comets among the near-Earth object population: a meteor-based survey." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 462 (4): 3511-3527 [10.1093/mnras/stw1846] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "When comets get old: A synthesis of comet and meteor observations of the low activity comet 209P/LINEAR." Icarus 264 48-61 [10.1016/j.icarus.2015.09.003] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "On the age and formation mechanism of the core of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream." Icarus 261 100-117 [10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "DYNAMICAL MODEL FOR THE TOROIDAL SPORADIC METEORS." The Astrophysical Journal 789 (1): 25 [10.1088/0004-637x/789/1/25] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Öpik-type collision probability for high-inclination orbits: Targets on eccentric orbits." Icarus 226 (1): 682-693 [10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Öpik-type collision probability for high-inclination orbits." Icarus 219 (1): 150-160 [10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.021] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Dynamical Model for the Zodiacal Cloud and Sporadic Meteors." The Astrophysical Journal 743 (2): 129 [10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/129] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Dynamics of Dust Particles Released from Oort Cloud Comets and Their Contribution to Radar Meteors." The Astrophysical Journal 743 (1): 37 [10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/37] [Journal Article/Letter]