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Abstract: When meteors pass through the atmosphere,
they are heated to ablation and create ionized trails. These trails
are long known to reflect radio signals, but their intrinsic emission
was only revealed recently by scientists working with the Long
Wavelength Array. In this talk, I will describe observations of
meteors with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), introduce the
incidence and influence of meteors. I will also talk about a few
transient events caused by reflection of FM broadcasting from space
objects, discussing the MWA’s ability to detect space debris as a
passive radar.
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