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146 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS their shape so that we can ignore the possible variations of A during the meteor life and ws accept the value 4-(H if ing to a spherical shape. This value is usually employed in Harvard’s work. The effect of fragmentation makes useless any search for a better approximation. We shall discuss this effect later. The last quantity to be considered is the drag coefficient y. This quantity is not well known. The results yielded by an interpolation formula...