Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1130 16 1130-16-p040

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166 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS Very recently Rajchl (1963) has found that the luminosity coefficient v2, decreases during the meteor flight, being proportional to (1+ pot). Rajchi reached this conclusion by analyzing only 8 meteors and by using some approximated equations to which we may apply the same criticisms as to Ceplecha’s work in point (2) of the introduction. The present results show that this dependence also does not exist. Results for small-camera meteors.—While shower...