Computer Science
Scientific paper
Mar 2000
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 243-249 (2000).
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Precise atmospheric trajectories including dynamic and photometric data on the 13 of the brightest Leonid fireballs have been determined from the double station photographic observations of Leonids during the ground-based expedition to China in November 1998. The expedition was organized as a collaboration between the Dutch and Chinese Academy of Sciences and was supported by the Leonid MAC program (Jenniskens and Butow, 1999). All data presented here were taken at Xinglong Observatory and at a remote station Lin Ting Kou near Beijing on the night of November 16/17. At Xinglong station photographic cameras were accompanied with an all-sky TV camera equipped with an image intensifier and 15 mm fish-eye objective in order to obtain precise timings for all observed meteors up to magnitude +2. While beginning heights of photographed meteors are all lower than 130 km, those observed by the all-sky TV system are at about 160 km and for three brightest events even above 180 km. Such high beginnings for meteors have never before been observed. We obtained also a precise dynamic single-body solution for the Leonid meteor 98003 including the ablation coefficient, which is an important material and structural quantity (0.16 s2km-2). From this, and from known photometry, we derived a density of this meteoroid of 0.7 g/cm3. Also all PE coefficients indicate that these Leonids belonged to the fireball group IIIB which is typical for the most fragile and weak interplanetary bodies. From a photometric study of the meteor lightcurves we found two typical shapes of light curves for these Leonids.
Betlem Hans
Jenniskens Peter
Spurny Pavel
van't Leven Jaap
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