[meteorite-list] Speed that meteors enter dark flight?

[Chris Peterson]

There are a number of papers out there which address modeling meteor 
flight, both during ablation and dark phases. In fact, you can produce a 
reasonably good estimate with nothing more than some basic physics and 
an Excel spreadsheet. For more accurate analysis, you need to implement 
a good numerical integrator and incorporate an ablation/fragmentation 
model. Dark flight modeling is fairly straightforward, but depends on 
accurate high altitude wind data, which may or may not be available, 
depending on the time and location of the event you are studying.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 3/7/2012 11:55 AM, Graham Ensor wrote:
> Thanks Chris...that gives me something to work with...It's one of
> those questions I've wanted answering for a while now. Will be
> interesting to see any advice on calculating the trajectory curve from
> this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
>