Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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the dimmer the meteor, the shorter the trail.
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They don 't occur up in th heavens, they occur down below you.
This i s the
area that you spend a great deal of time looking at i n t he night.
You're
looking up at the stars.
We came to the conclusion that you looked at the ground in the daytime,'
you looked at the horizon starting at night, and if you were looking some­
where else, you really didn 't see much.
You find out that sky, in the
daytime you a.on 't see anything-
I was just curious whether it would be worthwhile to spend a little bit
of time looking sort of at the ground close to the hor izon and trying to
count meteors in terms of finding out what ­
I 'm sure we could.
Getting a count on.
It occurred quite low do,m . . . . ... . . You looked down at 30
0 and
there'd be meteors; at 45° there'd be meteors.
Obviously well below you.
Did they l ook any different from shooting star s from a baJ.loon?
The t hing that I noticed about them is that they were short and I think
this is probably because you're l ooking at them from above and the angle -­
the lengt h of them - of short, and. you 're seeing them as they come down
through the atmosphere from above and so you see a line that's lonly that
long from above .
Up there it ' s only that long, and then when you look at
them f'rom down below you see them .ome all the way down and they appear to
me­
'l'hey 'rc probably microscopic .
The random slope direction.
~.iometime s they 're real 11ttlc tiny short ones and-
1\.nd I think the short on 'fl would. more be an indication that they were very
d.im ones, b <;ausc
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