Meteor
(grech. atmosfernoe yavlenie)
Vspyshki i drugie yavleniya v verhnei atmosfere Zemli
vyzvannye vtorzheniem v nee so skorost'yu ot 11 km/s i vyshe
tverdyh kosmicheskih chastic ili tel, nazyvaemyh
meteoroidami;
"sgoraya" v atmosfere
oni vyzyvayut ionizaciyu molekul i vozbuzhdenie atomov
vozduha, iz-za chego voznikaet nablyudaemyi yarkii meteornyi
sled; naibolee moshnye yavleniya, chasto soprovozhdaemye
padeniem meteoritov,
nazyvayutsya bolidami;
poyavlenie meteorov svyazano s meteornymi potokami
Zasov A.V., GAISh, Moskva
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