Non-linear meteor trails

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Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988em%26p...42..185b&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295), vol. 42, Aug. 1988, p. 185-199.

Computer Science

Numerical Analysis

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Magnus Effect, Meteor Trails, Statistical Analysis, Nonlinearity, Numerical Analysis

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In this essay an attempt is made to not only review but reopen the debate on nonlinear meteor trails. On the basis of data culled from various, now historical, sources it is found that approximately one in every two hundred of the visual meteors is likely to show a nonlinear trail, and that of such trails about 60 percent will be continuously curved and 40 percent sinusoidal. It is suggested that two mechanisms may explain the various trail types: the continuously curved trails being a manifestation of the classical Magnus effect, and the sinusoidal trails resulting from torque-free precession.

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