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We study the motion of meteoroids in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is shown that space bodies do not always fall on the Earth or explode and shatter into small fragments in the atmosphere. Instead, for certain aerodynamic characteristics and small angles of entry into the atmosphere, they may re-enter the outer space after traveling several thousand kilometres through the atmosphere.
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Syzranova, N.G., Andrushchenko, V.A. (2021). Aspects of Meteoroids Flight in the Earth’s Atmosphere. In: Jain, L.C., Favorskaya, M.N., Nikitin, I.S., Reviznikov, D.L. (eds) Applied Mathematics and Computational Mechanics for Smart Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 217. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4826-4_2
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