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142 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS Jacchia (1957a) found that C is independent of the meteor velocity; this result has been confirmed by the analysis of the complete set of data, precisely reduced by Jacchia, concern- ing Super-Schmidt material (Jacchia, Verniani and Briggs, unpublished). We therefore have observational evidence that the exponents tp and n, are equal—a result that is far from obvious. This being so, in the following » will refer both to n, and m,. Jacchia’s results...