Research Article

On the Mass Distribution of Fragments of an Asteroid Disrupted in the Earth’s Atmosphere

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Сumulative number of fragments versus normalized fragment mass. Experimental results [41] at core type of destruction for four impacts under similar conditions (markers) and calculations by formula (9) (blue lines). (a) (l)2 = 0.027, (b) (l)2 = 0.025, (c) (l)3 = 0.020, and (d) (l)2 = 0.024.
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