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Meteoric and atmospheric atoms and molecules become excited and ionized during inelastic collisions between the vaporizing atoms of a meteoroid and air molecules and atoms. As a result, an ion trail forms along the path of the meteor, or, more precisely, an ion-electron trail, because it contains both ions and electrons, the trail as a whole being quasi-neutral.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Bronshten, V.A. (1983). Meteoric Ionization. In: Physics of Meteoric Phenomena. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7222-3_6
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