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Experimental modeling of the breakup of meteoroids in the earth’s atmosphere

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Ablation of meteoroids (rock materials and ice) in high-temperature gas flows and in radiation heating is modeled experimentally, and the character of their breakup is considered.

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Academic Scientific Complex “A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute,” National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 1145–1148, November–December, 1999.

The work was carried out under the program of the International Science and Technology Center, project B23-96.

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Romanov, G.S., Tret’yak, M.S. & Chuprasov, V.V. Experimental modeling of the breakup of meteoroids in the earth’s atmosphere. J Eng Phys Thermophys 72, 1107–1110 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02699458

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