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72. Some problems of meteor astronomy: Introductory Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

F. L. Whipple
F. L. Whipple*
Affiliation:
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

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We are now in an era of remarkable progress in the study of meteors. The electronic techniques developed at Jodrell Bank by Lovell, Clegg and others, and now by Davies, have culminated in giving us the power to observe the equivalent of 8th or 9th magnitude meteors for velocities, radiants and orbits. And certainly the limit has not yet been reached. The Harvard Super-Schmidt meteor cameras represent nearly the limit of current photographic-optical techniques; they approach close to the visual limit for very slow meteors, and with great precision, to 0·1 % in velocity and radiant.

Type
Part VI: Meteors and Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 4: Radio Astronomy , 1957 , pp. 375 - 389
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957 

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