(meteorobs) Repost- Clear evidenceforMeteoroidejecta/outgassing.

[Malcolm J. Currie]

> Certainly, there is much still to be understood about meteors. I just don't
> see what observing with a video camera from a stratospheric platform
> provides that can't be accomplished cheaper and easier from the ground.

I agree.  At best you're only a third of the way, and certainly not on 
top of the events.  Even with a platform in the meteor layer, most 
meteors would be tens of kilometres away and the bright ones typically 
further than that.  If you could place an altitude-adjustable platform 
there, of more interest I think would be the velocities of the winds 
that give rise to the shearing of meteor trains.

Telescopic observation (surely you remember that?) effectively gets you 
closer than these platforms, but admittedly with a smaller field of view
targeting fainter meteors.

Malcolm Currie