Orbit of the Murchison Meteorite
Abstract
Because the path of the Murchison meteorite fortuitously intersected the Earth's path at an angle of only a few degrees, the visual observations establish the entry velocity to be within 2 km/s of 13 km/s and determine the nature of its orbit with a precision quite unusual for visually sighted falls.
- Publication:
-
Meteoritics
- Pub Date:
- December 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1990.tb00718.x
- Bibcode:
- 1990Metic..25..339H
- Keywords:
-
- Murchison Meteorite;
- Orbit Calculation;
- Reentry Trajectories;
- Aphelions;
- Fireballs;
- Orbital Mechanics;
- Astronomy;
- Orbital