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THE AERODYNAMIC HEATING OF ATMOSPHERE ENTRY VEHICLES
- A REVIEW
Paper for Symposium on Fundamental Phenomena i n Hypersonic Flow, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo, New York, June 25-26, 1964
By H. Julian Allen* National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center Moffett Field, C a l i f . Introduction
oxidizer a s well as f u e l be carried, the energy content per u n i t prop e l l a n t mass i s poor. I n addition, the mean propulsive efficiency i s
low s o t h a t the r a t i o of launch weight t o empty weight i s very l a r g e indeed. Hence every e f f o r t must be made t o keep the payload a s large Light construction i s The engine
designers were faced with the problem of designing rocket motors t h a t would produce very high t h r u s t but with l i t t l e weight. The s t r u c t u r a l
mainly
control experts were called uponto provide systems which would give a
*Assistant
Director f o r Astronautics
challenging problems
w a s successfully mastered.
quarter the circumference o f t h e Earth must be accelerated during t h e boost phase i n t o space t o a speed of about
7 km/sec.
has a k i n e t i c energy of aLout 25X106 m2/sec2 per u n i t mass which i s about eight times the amount of energy required t o convert a u n i t mass of i c e i n t o steam. Clearly, i f a large fraction of t h i s k i n e t i c energy
In order t o assess the fraction of the energy which e n t e r s the vehicle, consider the following simplified analysis.
If the entry speed
where
m
V
3
t
p
time a i r density reference area (usually base area) f o r d e f i n i t i o n of coefficients drag coefficient
Now, the heating r a t e f o r these vehicles i s very large compared t o
A
CD
t h e r a t e a t vhich heat can be reradiated f r o x %he s u f a c e , and the driving temperature p o t e n t i a l promoting the convective t r a n s f e r of heat
i s determined e s s e n t i a l l y by the a i r temperature ( i . e . , the wall tern-
perature can be ignored by comparison t o the a i r temperature). these circumstances one may show that the r a t e of input of heat expressed i n k i n e t i c energy units i s dq - I. C,~V~A
Under
at
where
CH
- -( CH mdv27 )
CD
(3)
If we assume for the moment t h a t the mass, the heat-transfer coefficient,& the drag coefficient may be considered constant, then
where
The f a c t o r
CH q=CD
4
i s the portion of the t o t a l kinetic energy which must appear a s heat t o
Clearly,
e n t i r e l y a convective one.
CH
where
1 = 2 CF
(7)
CF
i s the f r i c t i o n coefficient.
I n order t o keep the heat shield mass, which i s proportional t o the t o t a l heat input, as small as possible, then, t h e extraneous mass (see eq.
indicate the optimum w i l l be attained when the r a t i o of f r i c t i o n a l force t o t o t a l drag force is as small as possible (ref. 2 ) .
a
A blunt body b e s t
satisfies t h i s l a t t e r requirement.
p a r t i c u l a r l y low i f laminar flow can be maintained a t the usual Reynolds numbers of i n t e r e s t f o r then the f r i c t i o n coefficient i s much l e s s than
than one-half of 1 percent were obtainable so t h a t even using a s o l i d heat sinlc as a shield
- a poor
coolant a t b e s t
a satisfactory entry
heating so that advantage could be taken of t h e l a t e n t heat of vaporization t o g r e a t l y increase the heat removed per u n i t of heat shield mass.
The ablative shields have a second recognized advantage of great impor-
tance (see refs. 3 t o 6 ) which i s that the issuing vapor from the s h i e l d s fends off the air so as t o reduce the shear a t the vehicle
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surface and hence reduce the heat-transfer coefficient i t s e l f . reduction is approximately i n the r a t i o
This
wherein
fv
k
t o note i s t h a t the reduction of heat-transfer coefficient with ablation increases with increasing speed. There i s a t h i r d advantage of the ablative shield which i s not generally appreciated that w i l l become important a t higher e n t r y speeds.
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since t h e f i n a l mass is, o f course, the payload i n an optimum design,
F r the heat sink shield, on the other hand, even supposing the coolant o
Figure 1 shows the optimum r a t i o of payload t o e n t r y mass as a function of the energy parameter CHVE2/2C~(v. For the nonablative
s h i e l d the payload vanishes when t h e energy parameter reaches 1. For the ablative shield some payload i s available f o r i n d e f i n i t e l y large values of t h e energy parameter although it may be uneconomically small. Reentry Heating f o r Space Vehicles The negative accelerations of b a l l i s t i c vehicles entering the
,
atmsphere on steep t r a j e c t o r i e s are large compared t o t h e acceleration of gravity, as noted e a r l i e r , s o t h a t the equation of motion can be approximated by equation (1)and the t r a j e c t o r y i s e s s e n t i a l l y a straight line.
P =
where
-Ph
Po
h
sea-level density
altitude
inverse of t h e scale height Under these circumstances it may r e a d i l y be shown ( r e f . 2) t h a t t h e
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where
y
t i o n t o be independent of the vehicle shape or mass and only dependent on e n t r y speed, t r a j e c t o r y angle, and the scale height of the atmosphere. For the t y p i c a l b a l l i s t i c missile the maximum accelerations can reach about -60 g but t h i s i s of small significance since such vehicles can be r a t h e r e a s i l y made s u f f i c i e n t l y robust t o r e s i s t such loads. For manned space vehicles, of course, maximum accelerations must be limited t o values of the order o f 10 g during entry. Equation (14)
Chapman
For near-Earth
manned s a t e l l i t i e s , such as f o r Project Mercury, a s a t i s f a c t o r y reentry may be made without t h e use of aerodynamic l i f t i f the entry t r a j e c t o r y
is n e i t h e r so s h a l l o w
88
When t h e e n t r y speed is increased t o values corresponding t o Earth parabolic speed o r greater, the attainment of a permissible approach t r a j e c t o r y becomes more d i f f i c u l t .
A t Earth hyperbolic speeds, i n f a c t ,
Generally, the
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si.tuation w i l l be more r e s t r i c t e d than has been indicated, f o r i f t h e vehicle on t h e shallow t r a j e c t o r y l e a v e s t h e atmosphere, it may t r a v e r s e
the
assumed t h a t a manned vehicle must be captured and kept i n t h e atmosphere during the " f i r s t pass." '
A concept convenient t o discussion of t h e
manned e n t r y vehicle problem is the so-called e n t r y corridor defined herein as t h e range of a l t i t u d e s required as aiming points f o r t h e approach t o assure t h a t t h e vehicle n e i t h e r experiences excessive accelerations nor f a i l s t o be captured i n a s i n g l e pass. Figure 2 shows
.
For small rugged e n t r y vehicles of
rather low mass, steep t r a j e c t o r i e s are generally preferable f o r minimizing a b l a t i v e heat-shield weight, i f aerodynamic loading i s not a factor, since t h e heat pulse though intense i s but of very s h o r t duration so t h a t l i t t l e heat is conducted i n t o t h e substructure. In
addition, a b l a t i v e s h i e l d s which melt before being vaporized have a t h i n melt so that the flow of t h e melt layer c r e a t e s l i t t l e d i f f i c u l t y . In contrast, f o r manned vehicles which must employ shallow-angled t r a j e c t o r i e s t o avoid excessive accelerations, t h e heating rate i s more
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w i l l flow unduly because the liquid f i l m layer is r e l a t i v e l y thick.
O the other hand, there are some compensating f a c t o r s favoring the n shallow t r a j e c t o r i e s : The long heating time permits a sizable amount
of heat t o be radiated f r o m t h e vehicle surface, thus reducing the required mass f o r the ablator.
f l i g h t Reynolds numbers are lower s o t h a t a laminar flow can often be maintained where otherwise t.l~rbvlent. flow wnllll! heating r a t e i s lessened.
C?CC??IT~ hence
+,he
heating c o n s t i t u t e s the t o t a l .
Venus t o Earth, the atmosphere entry speeds a t Earth a r e e s s e n t i a l l y Earth parabolic speed. However, as shown i n figure 3, t h e times
required f o r the minimum e n e r g y t r i p s a r e long, s u b s t a n t i a l f r a c t i o n s of a year. There are many good reasons f o r wanting t o shorten the
travel time.
obscurely, the vehicle weight, as determined f o r equal meteor impact hazard, f o r example, gives advantage t o short t r i p duration. Thus, f o r
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atmosphere entry speeds i n excess o f the parabolic speed.
For more
---.---+*a
kcu
+,. w
LA-&
l ~ a k .
s u f f i c i e n t t o dissociate and ionize a large f r a c t i o n of t h e compressed gas. These atomic and molecular species become important sources of
radiation which serve t o promote additional heating of the vehicle (see, e.g., r e f s . 12 t o 1 6 ) . The phenomenon i s a complicated one since a chain of processes i s required t o e s t a b l i s h chemical and thermodynamic equilibrium. Thus the
r a d i a t i o n f r o m t h e shock layer varies along the s t r e a m l i n e s as air i n i t i a l l y out of equilibrium subsides t o the equilibrium state.
For the
purposes of t h i s discussion it i s sufficient t o note t h a t one can regard the shock-layer radiation as having two components, one from t h a t f r a c t i o n of the gas which is in equilibrium and one from the nonequilibrium fraction.
exceeds the convective heating, it has been found t h a t t h e equilibrium component f a r overshadows the nonequilibrium component. Accordingly,
1 1
variation of radiation with a l t i t u d e corresponds t o a variation w i t h
a i r density t o the 1.8 power. A t any given a l t i t u d e on increasing the
velocity, U, from about 8 km/sec t o 13.7 lun/sec, the i n t e n s i t y i s increased four orders of magnitude, the i n t e n s i t y varying with the velocity t o the
15.45
power.
t r i v i a l contribution a t the lower speed, it becomes t h e dominating f a c t o r a t higher speeds, p a r t i c u l a r l y i f these high speeds a r e a t t a i n e d a t low altitudes. One concludes t h a t when atmosphere e n t r y speeds exceed about Earth
1 parabolic speed ( 1km/sec) the blunt-body solution i s no longer the
optimum.
speed range since the bow shock e s s e n t i a l l y i s no longer normal t o the direction o f motion. nearly
As we have seen f o r normal shock speeds up t o
14 km/sec,
thing more than the fifteenth power of the velocity component normal t o the shock.
as t h e fifteenth power of the sine of the bow shock angle, and so the
radiative input is d r a s t i c a l l y reduced f o r even very modest inclination
of the bow shock.
body from the convective heating aspect, but since t h e required cone shape is not one of high fineness r a t i o , t h e penalty is small. This
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which contains an extended analysis of the heating of conical entry vehicles a t speeds i n excess o f Earth parabolic speed. Figure 3 shows
of a r c .
The
B =
CDPoA
pm s i n y
has a value of 200 which, as estimated from our meager present knowledge,
contribute substantially u n t i l speeds of the order of 20 kilometers a r e exceeded a f t e r which it dominates. bution The nonequilibrium r a d i a t i v e contri-
r a d i a t i v e contribution
Figure 6 shows t h e total. energy f r a c t i o n as a function of e n t r y speed f o r a range of cone half-angles f o r the same value of the b a l l i s t i c parameter. The optimum energy fractions f o r t h i s value of
B
number of
lo7 based
f r a c t i o n of the entry mass which must be ablated as a function of e n t r y speed for two ablators (subliming Teflon and vaporizing quartz) i s shown i n f i g u r e 7.
- well
If turbulent
flow occurs, the mass l o s s fraction i s much greater since the energy f r a c t i o n is increased about an order of magnitude. Considerable future
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research on the age-old t r a n s i t i o n problem i s c l e a r l y needed a t these high speeds. W must learn the f a c t o r favorable t o the e
maintenance of laminar flow i n boundary l a y e r s composed of a i r and ablation vapors. There i s another problem w i t h conically shaped e n t r y vehicles t o touch on before w leave t h i s subject. e The convective heat t r a n s f e r
i s iiigiiesi a i ihe cone apex and diminishes toward tne cone base.
Thus %he cone ablates t o a round-nosed, near-cone shape with increased cone half-angle a s the atmosphere entry progresses. I f the e n t r y
speed i s high, the rounded nose becomes f l a t t e n e d and extended i n width by t h e radiative heating contribution a t the lower a l t i t u d e s . the advantage of the o r i g i n a l conical shape may thus be l o s t . Much of In
reference 17 t h i s problem i s treated in some d e t a i l and it appears t h a t the p e n d t y can be kept small, provided excessive shape change i s avoided by extra f i l m cooling a t t h e apex.
O f course, the mechanical.
complication attendant with t h i s cooling i s undesirable but it i s a price which perhaps m u s t be paid t o e f f e c t a s a t i s f a c t o r y solution t o t h e problem.
]o Fr
8, for
an assumed fixed maximum deceleration of 10 g , a higher and higher l i f t drag r a t i o i s required as entry speed increases u n t i l a speed is
zero drag, the centrifugal force experienced i s 10 g . f o r a f l i g h t t r a j e c t o r y having a curvature equal t o the radius of the Earth. The
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Earth's center. From t h e foregoing it appears t h a t the e n t r y speeds
f o r manned vehicles, a t l e a s t , w i l l have t o be limited t o values l e s s than perhaps 20 km/sec and t h a t l i f t must be provided. Entry vehicles
shaped l i k e half-cones, perhaps, may provide s a t i s f a c t o r y configurations ( r e f . 10) f o r high-speed e n t r i e s . U t o t h i s point it has been t a c i t l y assuned t h a t aerodynamic p braking of a vehicle i s preferable t o rocket braking t o e f f e c t a landing on Earth.
It i s well t o digress, here, t o make a comparison. A s is
where
i
g0 dm/dt
Equations
Comparing t h i s equation with t h e corresponding one for the ablation r a t e with aerodynamic braking (eq. (lo)), one sees that t h e equivalent
heat shield i s
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where 7
i s t h e energy f r a c t i o n
5,
f o r subliming Teflon and
CV
= 2 . 2 f i ~S / s e c 2
= 16x10~m2/sec2
f o r vaporizing quartz, one can calculate the equivalent s p e c i f i c impulse f o r aerodynamic braking. The v a r i a t i o n of t h i s impulse w i t h
9. Though these
equivalent impulses drop w i t h increasing e n t r y speed, they are always well above what can be a t t a i n e d with chemical rockets ( l e s s than 500 sec) o r nuclear rockets (up t o about 1,000 sec) even f o r a rather i n e f f i c i e n t a b l a t o r such as Teflon. Hence as long as energy f r a c t i o n s f o r vehicles
with a b l a t i v e heat shields can be kept t o t h e order of 1 percent o r so, rocket braking cannot be considered competitive. Aerodynamic B r a k i n g i n t h e Atmospheres of Venus and Mars
The Earth's close neighbors, Venus and Mars, are objects of
p a r t i c u l a r i n t e r e s t i n t h e space age.
Although t h e atmospheres of
are few.
stituent. total.
Nitrogen, presumably, and perhaps Argon are t h e other p r i n c i p a l Apparently oxygen and water vapor are present i n but
constituents.
L
r e l a t i v e l y small amounts.
of t h e constituents are varied over a wide range. The Venus atmosphere i s assuredly much more dense than i s the
E a r t h ' s so t h a t atmospheric braking i s not d i f f i c u l t .
O t h e other hand, n
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t h e temperature near the surface o f t h e planet is high so t h a t even an instrument package may not survive f o r long. tenuous. The Mars atmosphere i s
retrorocket a t touchdown.
a f t e r lar,&-jng
does not appear t o present a problem. Convective heat t r a n s f e r i n the Venus and Mars atmosphere appears t o present no problem. Comparison of convective heat i n
CO,
and a i r
t r i b u t e d from t h e shock l a y e r i s generally a more serious problem than f o r air (ref. 22) because of the formation of cyanogen, a strong
A t speeds
C, O
- N2 mixtures
values of r a d i a t i v e heating.
measured t h e e f f e c t s of' adding argon and has found, contrary t o expectation, t h a t t h i s diluent does not appreciably influence t h e basic
COz
- Rz
results.
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Experimental Determination of Aerodynamic Heating a t Hypervelocities The accuracy of t h e foregoing r e e n t r y heating analyses i s only as good as the accuracy of our basic knowledge of t h e chemical and thermodynamic processes involved.
As i n t h e s c i e n t i f i c delineation of a l l
case, constant input from experimental research i s needed not only t o progress a t a fast pace but t o assure t h a t t h e t h e o r e t i c a l results are, i n f a c t , valid. In hypersonic heat-transfer phenomena t h i s i s particu-
speed i n our ground-based laborabory equipment i s only a l i t t l e more than 13 km/sec. For present analyses a t higher a i r speeds, we must In t i m e we expect t h e l i m i t of
r e l y on extrapolation by theory.
extend our experimental knowledge t o t h e higher speeds, but such tests are very expensive and so t i m e consuming that they cannot be counted on t o produce t h e experimental data we need. experimental sources f o r confirmation. Observations of meteor f l i g h t a r e one such source worthy of consideration. Meteoroids are known t o e n t e r t h e Earth's atmosphere a t One then looks f o r other
speeds ranging from parabolic speed ( 1km/sec) up t o t h e highest speed 1 they can have and s t i l l be members of t h e solar system (72 kq/sec)
met.
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can one be tracked a t any one location. Until recently there have
existed but a few meteor observatories so t h a t the number of continuum flow meteors, f o r which accurate tracking data a r e available, i s very limited.
A s w i l l be discussed mre f u l l y l a t e r , there a r e presently
under construction many new meteor observatories s o t h a t future prospects as regards the a v a i l a b i l i t y o f nieteor data are good. Astronomers, for a number of years now (see r e f . 23 f o r a review), have successfully tracked meteors in the following way: One or more
cameras, located a t the two ends of a known base l i n e , a r e provided with r o t a t i n g shutters which occult t h e meteor image on the photographic p l a t e s a t even time intervals. triangulation.
The meteor t r a j e c t o r y i s determined by
of t h e meteoric body along the trajectory i s determined from the interrupted photographic track. Comparison of r e l a t i v e exposure of the
meteor t r a c k with the background f i e l d of stars whose photographic magnitudes a r e known provides the measurement of the variation of the meteor luminosity along the trajectory. assess t h e meteor composition, Spectra a r e orten measured t o
t o a l l o w the determination of the variation of s i z e and heat-transfer c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of t h e meteoric body w i t h a l t i t u d e and speed.
Two
methods of analysis generally employed are the "dynamical method" and the ttphotometrical method." paper. W shall t r e a t only the former i n t h i s e Suffice it t o say,
complete solution.
In the dynamical method of analysis the v e l o c i t y and acceleration h i s t o r i e s a r e all t h a t a r e needed t o determine heat-transfer charact e r i s t i c s , and, i f the density o f t h e meteoroid i s known, t h e s i z e variation with a l t i t u d e can be found as well. However, it i s presumed
ref. 2 3 ) f o r
dellsity V&-ues*
rile
spherical during t h e atmosphere entry since a sphere represents about the b e s t mean of possible shapes (see r e f . 26).
#
From t h e equation of
the product of the meteor density and radius as a motion (eq. (1)) function of a l t i t u d e can be found from
pmr =
3cr0 (&)
i s approxi-
where
'j = p/po
mately unity.
since dt =
dh V sin y
t h a t even presuming
CD
is known,
can be found
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r a t h e r viscous
steep, then the mass ablated in the l i q u i d s t a t e (as Chapman, refs. 27 and 28,has found f o r t e k t i t e s ) can be a r a t h e r l a r g e f r a c t i o n of the total. O t h e other hand, f o r large meteoroids which enter the atmosn
small.
LL
~ D
..A1
since stoiie i s
ti. ye&
r i t e r i d , aiid, b e c a s e the
thermal conductivity i s low, it may a l s o s p a l l as the result of excessive t h e m stress. For iron meteoroids one does not expect
ablation t o be important i n t h e solid state except f o r bodies of g r e a t s i z e since t h i s material is strong and the thermal conductivity i s r e l a t i v e l y high. However l i q u i d iron has a very low v i s c o s i t y so t h a t
v e l o c i t y i s very accurately defined as a function of t i m e and altitude, the f i n a l results may be subject t o l a r g e mean e r r o r . The analysis
(see ref. 29) of t h e record of the Canadian meteor "Meanook 132" indicates that v e l o c i t i e s can, i n f a c t , be determined w i t h about t h e required accuracy. f o r t h i s meteor. Table I gives t h e velocity and acceleration h i s t o r y These r e s u l t s (see ref. 24) are more complete than
t h e o r i g i n a l values given i n reference 29 and include a correction t o one of t h e acceleration values (private communication from D r. Millman).
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I n figure 12 the dotted curve shows the v a r i a t i o n of the meteor densityradius product as computed from the sixth-order least squares s e r i e s .
The "point-to-point" values are calculated from each of the individual The s o l i d curve gives t h e photometrical
v e l o c i t i e s and accelerations.
r e s u l t s f o r a density of 850 kg/m3. Figure 1 3 gives the corresponding variation of the heat-transfer parameter w i t h a l t i t u d e . The dotted curve, again, i s obtained from the
sixth-degree l e a s t squares f i t while the c i r c l e d points are from neighboring point values of velocity and of acceleration t o evaluate the mean value over each a l t i t u d e interval. These dynamical r e s u l t s
compare favorably with the photometrical r e s u l t s , as the s o l i d l i n e shows. The dash-dot curves give estimated values of the heat-transfer
parameter when i n one case only vapor ablation was assumed t o occur and i n the other only f l u i d ablation. The implication, here, i s t h a t conThis l o w -
density material (less than water density) must evidently be porous and, accordingly, weak so that solid ablation would be expected. the r e s u l t s f o r t h i s meteor do not add t o
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Hence,
of t y p i c a l man-made e n t r y vehicles but they do show t h a t the meteor data derived from the photographic plates must be of high quality.
a/&').
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and l e a s t squares
s e r i e s ) are shown i n figure 1 4 along w i t h the values estimated when vapor and f l u i d ablation a r e assumed. Even when only vapor ablation i s
photometrical method of analysis for meteors employs, i n f a c t , t h i s radiation f r o m t h e ablated vapor collisions a s a means f o r determining the mass loss rate of a meteoric body. The magnitude of the radiation
per unit ablated mass depends not only on the f l i g h t speed ( i . e c o l l i s i o n energy) but also on the composition of the vapors.
.,
Even a t
r a t h e r low speeds t h e radiation can be important f o r c e r t a i n ablators. Figure 15 is a photograph of a Lexan model i n f l i g h t . The photo w a s
taken with an image-converter camera by m colleague Max Wilkins a t y Ames Research Center. The 1/2-inch-diameter model, which has a round
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t h e radiation from t h e region of t h e forward face results from
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r a d i a t i o n are t h a t , i n addition t o heating t h e forward face, it may g r e a t l y augment t h e afterbody heating of high-speed r e e n t r y bodies.
about ablation-products radiation and about t h e a b i l i t y of various a b l a t i v e materials t o resist s t r u c t u r a l failure caused by thermal stress, provided t h e meteor composition can be determined. Recently t h e NASA
supported a proposal by t h e Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory t o construct and operate a network of meteor observatories covering a l a r g e
area i n t h e midwest.
meteoritee t o be retrieved.
should result since, f o r t h e retrieved bodies, t h e f i n a l mass and shape and t h e meteor density and composition w i l l be known.
Also, as noted
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km/sec2
67 5 9
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64.56
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1.5
15.01
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17.42 17 3 9 17.35 17 30 .
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14.49 13.86
13.10
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12.24 11.28
10.25
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9.16
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186 91
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1.135
1.860
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