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Combined Observations of Meteors by Image-Orthicon Television Camera and Multi-Station Radar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. F. Cook ,
G. Forti ,
R. E. McCrosky ,
A. Posen ,
R. B. Southworth  and
J. T. Williams
A. F. Cook
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts
G. Forti
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts
R. E. McCrosky
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts
A. Posen
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts
R. B. Southworth
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts
J. T. Williams
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Observations from Multiple Sites of a radar network and by television of 29 individual meteors from February 1969 through June 1970 are reported. The primary purpose of the program was to compare ionization with luminosity. Only 12 of the meteors did not appear to fragment over all the observed portion of their trajectories. From these 12, the following relation for the radar magnitude MR to the panchromatic absolute magnitude Mp , in terms of velocity of the meteor V, was found:

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