[meteorite-list] Fireball temperatures

[Ed Majden]

See:  http://folk.ntnu.no/ltheen/meteor/meteor_physical.html

Do a search with "google"  "for meteor fireball temperatures".    
There are several papers related to this topic.

 From a spectroscopic point of view, Jiri Borovicka suggests that the  
temperature of the main component is around 4500 K and the second  
component is around 10,000 K (Borovicka 1994) Planetary Space Sci,  
42, 145-150.

Ed Majden - AMS Meteor Spectroscopy
Courtenay, B.C. Canada.