Photographic Networks for Fireballs

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Oct 1968

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SAO Special Report #288 (1968)

Computer Science

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The combined results of two photographic networks designed to observe bright meteors (the Prairie Network in the U.S.A. and the All-Sky Network in Czechoslovakia and West Germany) are compared with the expectations for these operations. We find that the mass flux of fireballs into the earth's atmosphere is greater than anticipated, while the influx of meteorites is apparently less than expected. As a provisional resolution of this anomaly, we suggest that most of the objects observed are low- density fragile meteoroids that undergo nearly complete ablation. A reanalysis of the Příbram meteor data has been made, and on this basis we suggest that gross fragmentation of stony meteorites in the high atmosphere may be a common phenomenon.

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