1) Meteor shower activity and forecasting.

• Detection of meteor showers and their parent bodies
• Observations of meteor shower profiles and unusual activity.
• Physical origin of meteoroid streams in outgassing and comet fragmentation.
• The dynamical evolution of meteoroid streams from birth to encounter with Earth.
• Physical differences of stream meteoroids and their relation to their parent bodies.
• Case studies:
  • Results from the November 2009 return of the Leonids.
    
  • The June Bootids from the 1830-dust of 7P/Pons-Winnecke on June 24, 2010.
    
  • The October 8, 2011, return of the Draconids.
    

• Sources of sporadic meteoroids and their relation to comet and asteroid populations.
• Origin of the zodiacal cloud and its structures.
• Dust detection by interplanetary space craft.
• Origin of interstellar meteoroids.

• Differential ablation and the heating of meteoroids.
• Fragmentation and the physical structure of meteoroids (density, porosity, strength, fusion crust).
• Plasma processes related to the meteor phenomena: initial trail radius, head-echoes, non-specular trails.
• Bolide modeling and the survival of meteorites.
• Radiation models of meteors in the rarefield flow regime.

• Meteor showers on other planets.
• Observations of sporadic ion layers on Mars, Venus, and the Giant Planets.
• The role of meteoric smoke in nucleating aerosols in the atmosphere of Titan and Mars.
• Hypervelocity impact on the Moon.

• Physics and chemistry of meteoric material in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere.
  
• Meteoric smoke particles and their role on the formation of ice layer phenomena.
  
• Circulation and transport of meteoric material around the globe.
  
• Micrometeorites and paleoclimate.
  
• Meteoroid interactions with a changing atmosphere, or meteoroid interactions as tracers of
  changes in the atmosphere affected by global warming.
  

• Cometary meteoroid mineralogy and chemistry after Wild 2.
• Physical and chemical properties of interplanetary dust particles.
• Physical and chemical properties of micrometeorites. Advances on Antarctic micrometeorite research.
• Laboratory simulation of the evaporation and ablation of meteoric minerals.
• Laboratory studies of meteoroid fragmentation.
• Meteor studies in astrobiology: delivery of prebiotic organics to Earth.

• Hypervelocity impacts on spacecraft.
• Charging effects on satellites cause by meteoroid impacts, including electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) and electrostatic discharges (ESDs).
• Impact flux models.

• Recorded fireball and bolide events and their relationships to meteorite types and asteroid taxonomic classes.
• Magnetic properties of meteorites.
• Detection of asteroids before they impact the Earth.
• Meteorite dark flight, impact, strewn fields, craters.

• New detection techniques of meteors and fireballs.
• Progress from meteor observing networks.
  • Status of ongoing projects.
  • Preliminary results.
• Patrol and Large Aperture Radar observations: differences and similarities.
• Simultaneous optical and radar detections. Insights on meteor properties.
• Infrasound detection of meteors.

• The Stardust SRC entry.
• The ATV-1 "Jules Verne" re-entry.
• The upcoming June 2010 return of the Hayabusa SRC entry.