Publication Date:
2013-08-31
Description:
Studies of meteor showers permit the solving of some principal problems of meteor astronomy: to obtain the structure of a stream in cross section and along its orbits; to retrace the evolution of particle orbits of the stream taking into account gravitational and nongravitational forces and to discover the orbital elements of its parent body; to find out the total mass of solid particles ejected from the parent body taking into account physical and chemical evolution of meteor bodies; and to use meteor streams as natural probes for investigation of the average characteristics of the meteor complex in the solar system. A simple and effective method of determining the flux density and mass exponent parameter was worked out. This method and its results are discussed.
Keywords:
ASTROPHYSICS
Type:
International Council of Scientific Unions, Middle Atmosphere Program. Handbook for MAP, Volume 25; p 272-279
Format:
application/pdf
