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Observational And Theoretical Investigation Of Cylindrical Line Source Blast Theory Using Meteors, Elizabeth A. Silber
Observational And Theoretical Investigation Of Cylindrical Line Source Blast Theory Using Meteors, Elizabeth A. Silber
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During their passage through the atmosphere meteoroids produce a hypersonic shock which may be recorded at the ground in the form of infrasound. The first objective of this project was to use global infrasound measurements to estimate the influx of large (meter/decameter) objects to Earth and investigate which parameters of their ablation and disruption can be determined using infrasound records. A second objective was to evaluate and extend existing cylindrical line source blast theory for meteoroids by combining new observations with earlier analytical models, and validate these against centimetre-sized optical meteor observations.
The annual terrestrial influx of large meteoroids (kinetic …