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

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 23 07:00:14 2006
Message-ID: <44EC3525.4000004_at_wanadoo.nl>

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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