The Moŕavka meteorite fall: 1. Description of the events and determination of the fireball trajectory and orbit from video records

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 975-987

  Borovicka J ^a   Spurny P ^a   Kalenda, P ^b   Tagliaferri, E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CoalExp ^*  (Czech Republic)

^c ET Space Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEORITE; ORBIT DETERMINATION; TRAJECTORY; VELOCITY;

CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVKA;

EID: 18844462963     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00293.x     Document Type: Article

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