Meteoric flux and density fields about an infinitesimal attractive center generated by a stream monoenergetic and monodirectional at infinity

The meteoric field structure theory previously developed for meteoric streams monoenergetic and monodirectional at infinity is applied to the problem of a meteoric stream incident upon an infinitesimal attractive center. Flux and density contours about the center are explicitly obtained for a particle speed at infinity of 2 km/sec as an example of a method developed to provide flux and density contours for any speed. An incident stream five to ten earth diameters in width results in an order of magnitude enhancement of flux at points downstream from the attractive center. The flux patterns for any energy can be derived from a universal flux plot in terms of a dimensionless parameter λ = yr , where y = V ∞ 2 /γ M , and γ is distance in earth (or center) radii. This universal flux plot is shown.