The Near-Earth Meteoroid Environment
Abstract
A detailed study of the meteoroid environment has been completed utiThese obserlizing observational data taken from Explorer XVI, Explorer XXIII, Pegasus I, 11, and 111, as well as from radar and photographic techniques. These observations cover the entire spectrum of masses important to the meteoroid hazard problem. The consistency of these measurements is examined and a mass distribution function is found which gives a best fit to the measurements. Predictions of penetration frequency are made independently of any mass determination which avoids this source of uncertainty.
- Publication:
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NASA Technical Note
- Pub Date:
- November 1966
- Bibcode:
- 1966NASTN3717.....N
- Keywords:
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- environment models;
- explorer satellites;
- meteoroid concentration;
- meteoroid hazards;
- pegasus satellites;
- penetration;
- satellite observation