(meteorobs) Fwd: {MPML} Meteoroid from afar (?)

[Chris Peterson]

It was much more interesting when it was going at 0.1 c! <g>

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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From: <meteoreye at comcast.net>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: {MPML} Meteoroid from afar (?)


For some reason it didn't come out right, that's 282 +/-53 km/sec.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: meteoreye at comcast.net 

> >From the quoted papaer: 
> 
> "Given the distance between the track and the radi- 
> ant and the track length, one can estimate the geocen- 
> tric velocity of the meteors. We obtain a velocity esti- 
> mate of 28253 km/s for a 110 km intrusion height into 
> the Earth's atmosphere and an average magnitude of 8.2. 
> Note that the estimates of the velocity and brightness of 
> meteors so obtained agree with spectroscopic data.