At the moment, most of the meteors are being studied from the Ground
MOSCOW, January 25. /tass/. Specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia proposed to study the chemical composition of meteors using a spectrometer that can be installed on board the International Space Station. This is stated in the theses to the report to the XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings).
"The principal possibility of studying the chemical composition of meteors from space is considered, and the functional appearance of scientific equipment for the Russian segment of the international space station for a space experiment to study the chemical composition of meteors is proposed," the theses say.
As specified in the materials, the prototype of the equipment was assembled and tested in laboratory conditions. The tests allowed us to confirm the algorithms and the scheme of work. At the moment, RSC Energia explained, most of the meteors are being studied from the Ground: experts are investigating flight paths and chemical composition. However, due to atmospheric phenomena and early combustion, some objects cannot be investigated by this method.
"When falling in the atmosphere, bodies begin to burn, the spectrum of this radiation is the main source of information about the chemical composition of the falling body. The location of the spectrometer in space will allow to obtain spectrograms at the earliest stages of gorenje gorenje in the upper layers of the atmosphere, as well as to obtain spectrograms at the stages of combustion in the lower layers of the atmosphere, regardless of atmospheric phenomena, "- specified in the materials.
It is assumed that the spectrometer will contain an observation camera that will record the appearance of a meteor, limit the field of view of the camera-aligned spectrometer and turn it on. "Such a spectrometer can be mounted on the ISS porthole and could work in automatic mode," the theses say.
XLVI Academic Readings on Cosmonautics in memory of S. P. Korolev (Royal Readings) will be held at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University from January 25 to 28.
