This volume by an astrophysics pioneer concerns the phenomena occurring during the flight of meteors through the terrestrial atmosphere.

Richard Taibi. Ernst Opik and the Harvard-Cornell Arizona Expedition 1931–1933 With Harlow Shapley's sponsorship, Ernst Opik (1893–1985) joined HCO's staff in 1930 and assisted Shapley in organizing a two-year meteor research program in ...

... Ernst Öpik Ernst Öpik Samuel L. Boothroyd 391. RESULTS OF THE ARIZONA EXPEDITION FOR THE STUDY OF METEORS , V. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF HELIOCENTRIC VELOCITIES OF METEORS . 392. INVESTIGATION OF CHANGES IN PERIOD OF CLUSTER TYPE VARIABLES ...

... Ernst Öpik - the founder of the contemporary astronomy school in Estonia ; and followed by Grigori Kuzmin , the most talented student of Ernst Öpik . The present generation of astronomers has continued the study of dark matter ...

... Ernst Öpik Ernst Öpik was born in 1893, in Kunda, Estonia, which was then part of the Russian empire. Although he spent the second half of his life (between 1948 and 1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. Öpik studied at ...

... Ernst Öpik , who was one of the board , began with the question " What is the average color index of a Holy- wood ... Ernst Öpik is one of the great minds of this century in astronomy ! " Some years later I had been assigned to the De ...

... which directly follows from ( 3 ) ; for the latter we used Sterne's table ( cf.6 , p . 774 ) of the values = 1 do Q2 22 [ 0 dt for the hydrogen - lithium reaction . = According to B. Strömgren 21 , we assume 27 74 24 T. P. 30.3 ERNST ÖPIK.