NASA NTRS · 19740011348
Ablation in meteors
Abstract
A comparison of theoretical calculations with the results of radar meteor observations shows that the theory of radio meteors satisfactorily represents observational data. Radar meteor observations are incompatible with the idea of low density for small meteoroids in the ablation process. The main mechanism of ablation is evaporation. During intensive evaporation, small meteoroids have a density close to that of usual stone meteorites.
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Lebedinets, V. N.. 1973-01-01. Ablation in meteors. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19740011348
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