Engineering Physics Annotation << Back EXPLOSIVE DECELERATION AND FRAGMENTATION OF METEORITES IN THE ATMOSPHERE D.V. PETROV, O.N. SHUBIN, V.P. ELSUKOV, V.A. SIMONENKO Consideration is given to the model describing explosive interaction between the atmosphere and meteorites, as well as these meteorites fragmentation. We demonstrate that in principle, explosive disruption of meteorites in the atmosphere is possible. Simple «burst height to fragment size» ratios are derived. Key words: atmosphere, meteorite, fragmentation, deceleration, explosive process, splitting, physical model, ablation. DOI: 10.25791/infizik.12.2018.334 Contacts: E-mail: D.V.Petrov@vniitf.ru Pp. 03-11.