METEORIC FLUX AND DENSITY FIELDS ABOUT AN INFINITESIMAL ATTRACTIVE CENTER GENERATED BY A STREAM MONOENERGETIC AND MONODIRECTIONAL AT INFINITY

摘要

The meteoric field structure theory previously developed for meteoric streams monoenergetic and monodirectional at infinity, is applied to the problem of a meteoric stream incident upon an infinitesimal attractive center. Flux and density contours about the center are explicitly obtained for a particle speed at infinity of 2 km/sec as an example of a method developed to provide flux and density contours for any speed. An incident stream five to ten earth diameters in width results in an order of magnitude enhancement of flux at points down-stream from the attractive center.