(TI-59) Cascade Impactor Data Reduction

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

Very interesting. Again it shows what a blessing the appearance of programmable calculators was for the engineers and scientists of the 1970ies.

But I hope that I am not the only illiterate who had to look up what a "cascade impactor" might be ;-) (in German it is the same word by the way - Kaskadenimpaktor - but still unknown to me).
Just yesterday evening our astronomy group held it's weekly zoom meeting - real life meetings are still a couple of months away I fear - and we talked about the latest (local) discovery in astronomy/geology that the two meteorite craters in southwestern Germany, the "Nördlinger Ries" and the "Steinheimer Becken", always thought to be caused by the same asteroid breaking up into two large pieces, could actually have caused by two completely unrelated impacts about a million years apart. So I instinctively assumed that a "cascade impactor" must be an asteroid breaking up into a cascade or shower of small impactors hitting the ground... But it is not!

Regards
Max