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162 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS 04 a 0.2 F 25 25 fa! 25 KO 25 25 -0.2 25 -04 4 ' 4 an fo) 0.2 0.4 06 08 x Frounz 7.—Sporadie Super-Schmidt meteors: average residuals A for groups of meteors of different fragmentation. Straight line from a least-squares solution, A= (log 75/pa)oba— (log r2/ph) tenst-racares (See table 9.) An explanation of the dependence of 7, on x could be found in the different density of the vapors in the meteoric coma. Low-fragmenta- tion meteors should have a...