Evidence for transverse spread in Leonid meteors

Details Evidence for transverse spread in Leonid meteors Evidence for transverse spread in Leonid meteors

Mar 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000mnras.313l...9l&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 313, Issue 1, pp. L9-L13.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

18

Meteors, Meteoroids

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We report here evidence for significant transverse spread of the light production region in bright Leonid meteors. One Leonid meteor has an apparent spread in the light production region of about 600m perpendicular to the flight path for the meteor, that transverse spread persisting for at least 0.3s. We have also detected short-duration, jet-like features emanating from a bright Leonid meteor recorded in 1998. These jet-like features have maximum spatial dimensions up to 1.9km. While we cannot definitively rule out instrumental artefacts as a cause for these jet-like features, they may be evidence of motion contributing to the observed spatial spread in the light production region.

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