Meteor luminosity at 160 km altitude from TV observations for bright Leonid meteors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-288

  Fujiwara, Yasunori ^a   Ueda, Masayoshi ^a   Shiba, Yasuo ^a   Sugimoto, Masatoshi ^a   Kinoshita, Masao ^a   Shimoda, Chikara ^a   Nakamura, Takuji ^b  

^a Nippon Meteor Society   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (ELECTRON TUBE); METEORITES; PHOTOGRAPHY; VIDEO CAMERAS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LEONID METEORS; METEOR LUMINOSITY;

SPACE RESEARCH; CAMERAS;

HIGH SPEED; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA; SENSITIVE WAVELENGTHS; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; TV CAMERA; TV SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031997397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03766     Document Type: Article

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