[meteorite-list] Re: Entry Burn [was Lunar Burn]

[Marco Langbroek]

I agree with Chris. Bear in mind that the source of the luminous phenomena we 
see when we see a meteor, is not so much the meteoroid itself burning up: it's 
the atmosphere around it becoming incandescend.

- Marco


> There are only a limited number of meteor spectra, so the colors aren't 
> real well understood, but I'd be surprised if you saw the nickel 
> emission over the atmospheric oxygen. The majority of slow, bright 
> meteors are reported as green by many witnesses, but only a small 
> fraction of those contain significant nickel.
> 
> Chris


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Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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