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	Figure 1: Top plot: flow regimes for meteoroids between 10-5 m and 1 m diameter, assuming no increase in density over the atmospheric density. Bottom plot: flow regimes assuming intensive ablation increases the density by a factor of 100. The actual regime over 100 km is probably closer to the first plot (see text).
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In the text

	Figure 2: Light curve of a solid meteoroid, mass  kg, using the classical mass loss equation and the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
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In the text

	Figure 3: Light curve of a solid meteoroid.
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In the text

	Figure 4: Light curve of a Leonid meteor, showing a peak in the middle of the curve.
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In the text

	Figure 5: Light curve of a Leonid meteor, showing a peak toward the end of the curve.
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In the text

	Figure 6: Simulated light curve using a Gaussian distribution of grains, with average grain size 10-8 kg.
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In the text

	Figure 7: Simulated light curve using a power law distribution, sf=2.4.
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In the text

	Figure 8: Fit to observed Leonid light curve.
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In the text

	Figure 9: Fit to observed Leonid light curve.
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In the text

	Figure 10: Fit to observed Leonid light curve.
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In the text