Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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Notes from the De-Briefing transcript
eteors:
Both cDivitt and hite
1 tioned seeing a number of rn teors bel w
them:
e sa quite a fe fall end burn up bolo our cltitude.
1hey wore bout
on half to on third as high as re were hen they ere conswn d. . e /n er
aaw one bove us . 11
{ short
d s if.,'()
As the acco p',nyin..~ plots of numb rs of meteor a ainst the onths of thef
r sho s the
oun of meteor activity in e rly June is at a r ther lo
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*Fig. l(Ro chta plot of Olivier data from S ithsoni n Contrib. t o Astrophys .N
level, b1,.:gdnn
to rioe very hortly alter that to rds ll peak in u ust .
on th average
from
to
altitude
Re rdless of their bri htness/meteors ap or
40 and 60 miles/in the earth's
sphere. Bri"ht rn toors ares en to reach about 40 miles, rhereas wct8kkx
lar e fireb· lls may still e seen as lo I as 20 miles or so.
Th
ver· , hei'.;ht th ou11.hout the ath is r ter for f aint r eteo
nd
for thos of h h v.locitie .
Actually the hr' ht objects r lar er and hence
tr vol further tofore they re conn
d1 often tr veling fo r sev ral hundr d
iles b for they r consum d.
Planets
The pilot re rked that"the pl ets or
o clear nd br' ht, 11 nd later
th t
11a11 the sun"ets h d the plan t in it •" Th y have in f ct r corded Venus
in the oriion bands on one of their sunset pictures .
t thot date V nus Qllbc
as still clos to the sun being (angul r dist;nce·t)Sup. conj .A r.11) bout 15de •
cast of the sun (eve. star). On the color print S-65-34771 them ge of Venus
can be distictly seen amid the horizon bands .