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Observational and Theoretical Aspects of Fireballs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Zdeněk Ceplecha
Zdeněk Ceplecha*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Onděejov Observatory, Czechoslovakia

Abstract

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Recent theoretical concepts of large meteoroid entry into the atmosphere are compared and an evident lack of a theory applicable to all observed fireballs is found. A new empirical criterion separating different fireball groups according to structure and composition of their bodies and containing only values directly obtained by photographic observations is proposed. The complex semi-empirical approach is found to be the best approximation to reality we can achieve for all fireballs at the moment. The interpretation of the fireball differences assuming variations in structure and composition of their bodies is the most natural explanation of the observational facts.

Type
II: Meteors and Meteorites
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 171 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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