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In November 1997, the Midcourse Space Experiment satellite (MSX) was deployed to observe the Leonid shower from space. The shower lived up to expectations, with abundant bright fireballs. Twenty-nine meteors were detected by a wide-angle, visible wavelength, camera near the limb of the Earth in a 48-minute interval, and three meteors by the narrow field camera. This amounts to a meteoroid influx of 5.5 ± 0.6 10 kin−2 hr−1 for masses > 0.3 gram. The limiting magnitude for limb observations of Leonid meteors was measured at Mv = −1.5 magn. The Leonid shower magnitude population index was 1.6 ± 0.2 down to Mv = −7 magn., with no sign of an upper mass cut-off.
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Jenniskens, P., Nugent, D., Tedesco, E., Murthy, J. (2000). 1997 Leonid Shower from Space. In: Jenniskens, P., Rietmeijer, F., Brosch, N., Fonda, M. (eds) Leonid Storm Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2071-7_23
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