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Atmospheric fragmentation of meteoriods
Z. Ceplecha, P. Spurnyý, Jiří Borovička, J. Keclíková
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Abstract
The single body theory of meteoroid interaction with the atmosphere in the form of l = l(t), where l is the relative distance along the meteoroid trajectory and t the relative time, is generalized by allowing for points of sudden gross-fragmentation. This theory can be directly applied to photographic observations of meteors, comparing the measured distance, l obs , with the model computed distance, l, by means of the least-squares method. The no-fragmentation case has 4 free parameters to be determined from observations (l 0 , v 0 , v∞, σ), distance and velocity at time t = 0, velocity at t = −∞ and ablation coefficient, respectively