Meech's research focuses on comets and how they can be used to understand the conditions in the early solar system. Click on the images in the table below to get a more detailed description of each of the projects. Meech is in charge of coordinating the ground-based observing effort in support of the NASA Discovery mission Deep Impact .
Current work seeks to determine the rotation period, nucleus size and dust environment.
Science Team web page . Searches for activity in other Centaur objects and KBOs is currently underway. Meech has provided an extensive database to the Stardust comet mission, and has been working on models with Ray Newburn to characterize the dust environment. Data is also being provided to the Comet Nucleus Sample Mission.