(meteorobs) Two questions for meteorobs members

[Steven Kolins]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 1030AM, Skywayinc at aol.com wrote:

> Are the V(infinity) speeds  of meteors corrected for the Earth’s gravity? 
> The speed would be, by the time we see the shooting  star have a downward 
> component of 11km/s due to falling by  gravity.


I would have thought the velocities quoted are purely observational. So in a sense they have not been "corrected" for the effect of Earth's gravity in the sense that "correction" usually means taking out some systematic effect.

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