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A Southern Hemisphere Radio Meteor Orbit Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

G. Gartrell*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
*
* Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury.

Extract

A combined multi-station radar equipment of c.w. and pulse at 27 MHz was used at Adelaide (lat. 35°S) during the period December 1968 to June 1969 and again in October 1969 to measure radiants and velocities of individual meteors down to limiting radio magnitude MR = + 8. Reflections from 3 to 5 points typically separated by 2 to 6 km along each trail were used and corrections for the effects of meteor region winds and wind shears were included. To date 1667 orbits have been determined from 6 months of data.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1972

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