Calculations of the disintegration of the Lost City, Grant, and Pribram meteorites during earth-atmosphere entry
Abstract
A method is proposed for calculating the heat-induced disintegration of meteorites entering the atmosphere at speeds below 21 km/s. The heat component of mass removal calculated for three representative meteorites is found to correlate well with the results obtained by other methods.
- Publication:
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Astronomicheskii Vestnik
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977AVest..10..151O
- Keywords:
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- Ablation;
- Aerothermodynamics;
- Atmospheric Entry;
- Blunt Bodies;
- Meteorites;
- Pribram Meteorite;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Fragmentation;
- Heat Flux;
- Helium;
- Laminar Flow;
- Mass Transfer;
- Radiative Heat Transfer;
- Stony Meteorites;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration