Abstract
The paper reports the determination of luminous efficiency values from ground testing of a comprehensive set of meteorite samples. The ground testing data is translated with commonly used ground to flight extrapolation analogies from atmospheric entry maneuver’s engineering into values of a night observation. This results in a meteor at an altitude of 80km with a flight speed of 11.7km/s of a 34.8 mm diameter spherical meteoroid. A method is developed to determine the total luminous efficiency τ in the bands U, B, V, R, and I from the radiance data and the measured mass loss. For the first time, a measurement of luminous efficiency became possible for known materials. The values itself are in the range of 0.01% to ∼ 1%, which is in the range of previous studies from meteor measurements.
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