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x0. 8 LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY OF METEORS 04d 0.2 ray o+ -0.27 -0.44 -108 -ILO -IL2 “14 -16 Log o Ficure 8.—Sporadic Super-Schmidt meteors: average residuals A vs. log ¢. Straight line A= (log re/pm)ove—(lOB te/Pm) tenst-oa from a least-squares solution. table 10.) and the correlation coefficient is —0.75. Also in this case the correlation is not appreciably changed by reducing the residuals to the average value of 3, because 3 does not vary systematically with log ¢. This correlation is similar to...