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Table 3

Appearance frequencies of meteoroids on Moon and around Earth in units of meteoroid h−1 .

Moon Earth

Sur MS LEO MEO GEO
Altitude (km) 0 80 500 20000 36000

Validated Spo 7.4 102 116 1712 4420
Str 12.6 173 197 2898 7481

Validated and suspected Spo 10.7 147 167 2456 6341
Str 23.3 321 364 5364 13848

Notes. Spo = sporadic, Str = stream, Sur = surface, MS = mesosphere, LEO/MEO/GEO = low/medium/geosynchronous Earth orbit.

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