Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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And I personally asked Glen, Cochran, Schirra , and Cooper if they say a
meteor and they all said negative.
And t hen you both said you saw a meteor.
No, a falling star.
Ha Ha.
I think thcre ' e a diff rence betw en what w say and what ,;.re were expected
to se as f a
ns meteors are cone rned.
Are you t a king about micro-,eteor.i tes striki ng the­
No, I 'm t alking about meteors in the atmosphere.
O. K.
Below.
O. K.
Below we saw them.
Little ones.
Ah, little ones.
Yes .
Now, one of the obvious situations is t hat you said you said a 7th
magnjtud
otar.
co probably your visual sensitivit y was better than
another ob er vation.
The window was better or something.
Is that it?
Di d you make a count of the num.be
of t he-
Wait a minute .
What are files you use success?
Well, if you have poor visual sensi tivity, then the number of meteors
observabl drops of f very qui ckly with the sensitivity of the eyes.
You sc, 10th magni tude, you could see a lot more meteors in the atmosphere
than you ·an if you .. . . . . 2nd magnitude.
And the question arises
How many do I exc .cd .. . .
. 2nc o rel r of meteo1:s .
Yca.11 .
They were ~nd or er. met eor s and ­