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A meteoroid already begins to warm up in the upper section of its path, when it encounters and is struck by oncoming air molecules. Some of the heat received from the impinging molecules is consumed in heating the body and the rest is radiated into the surrounding space.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Bronshten, V.A. (1983). The Heating of Meteoroids and the Onset of Vaporization. In: Physics of Meteoric Phenomena. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7222-3_3
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