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The observations on ground-based facilities miss multitudes of small fragments of space debris. However, the intrusion of fine particles into the atmosphere and their subsequent burning can be observed along with the usual meteor phenomena. Since the solar system meteoric body velocities at the entry into the atmosphere are over 11.2 km/s, and the velocity of the space debris objects does not exceed 11.2 km/s, the selection of meteors by velocity is a reliable criterion for separating these bodies. The paper describes a method of selecting the space debris fragments using a technique of television meteor monitoring. The technique was adapted on the material of real television observations on the FAVOR wide-field monitoring camera with high temporal resolution, conducted in 2006 in the Arkhyz station of the Institute for Precision Instrumentation (North Caucasus).
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Leonov, A.V. Bagrov, 2011, published in Astrofizicheskij Byulleten, 2011, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 93–96.
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Leonov, V.A., Bagrov, A.V. Study of space debris burning in Earth’s atmosphere via television meteor monitoring. Astrophys. Bull. 66, 87–89 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990341311010081
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