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74. The distribution of meteor masses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

I. C. Browne ,
K. Bullough ,
S. Evans  and
T. R. Kaiser
I. C. Browne
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England
K. Bullough
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England
S. Evans
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England
T. R. Kaiser
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England

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Kaiser (1953) [1] has shown how it is possible, from statistical studies of radio echoes from meteor trails, to obtain values of the exponent s in the assumed equation for the number of meteors n(α) of line density α where αm is the maximum electron line density (number of electrons per cm.) produced in the trail of a meteor. If the simple theories of the meteor ionization process are correct, αm is proportional to the meteor mass m, so that from radio echo studies it should be possible to obtain a measure of the meteor mass distribution: where n(m) is the number of meteors with mass in the range from m to m + dm.

Type
Part VI: Meteors and Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 4: Radio Astronomy , 1957 , pp. 392 - 393
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957 

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