Re: (meteorobs) meteor? meteoroid? how many?

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) meteor? meteoroid? how many?
• From: Steve Harrison <ko0u@os.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:44:37 +0000
• In-Reply-To: <199910282217.AA15914@trilliandot dev.latrade.com>
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At 06:17 PM 1999-10-28 -0400, you wrote:
>I thought I'd go right to the source.  I'm getting published in the MIT
>Lincoln Lab journal and I start out by saying
>
>"Approximately one billion meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere daily".
>
>
>Does anyone have issue what that statement?  This was calculated from
>a detection rate of 1 meteor head echo per second in our radar's 3 degree
>beam (spanning 70 to 140 km altitude).

Is your calculated rate corrected for diurnal variation as "seen" by the
radar? Is the calculated rate corrected for frequency of the radar? Not
trying to be too nit-picky since after all, give or take a few hundred
million out of a total of a billion meteors is STILL a heck of a lotta
meteors... :o)

SteveH
Shrewsbury MA
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