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ON THE POSSIBLE NUMBER AND MASS OF FRAGMENTS FROM PUŁTUSK METEORITE SHOWER, 1868
Author(s) -
Lang Bruno,
Kowalski Maciej
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1971.tb00106.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , shower , sorting , physics , field (mathematics) , astrophysics , astrobiology , mathematics , algorithm , thermodynamics , nozzle , pure mathematics
The earlier efforts to approximate the total number and mass of fragments from Pułtusk meteorite shower 1868 have been found unsatisfactory With the use of the field data of Samsonowicz and the sorting equation after Frost, differential expressions approximating the mass and number of fragments are derived. These expressions numerically integrated over the elliptical strewnfield area lead to the estimates ∼ 1.8 times 10 5 and ∼ 2 times 10 6 g for the total number and mass of fragments respectively. The meaning of the obtained results is discussed.