Video Observation of the Leonids 2001 Activity

This paper presents an analysis of records obtained by video equipment of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm. Totally, 3712 meteors, including 22 non-Leonid ones, were recognized from the record of 247 min. The brightness of meteors was measured with the software “LIMovie”, and a population index of r = 2.01 ˙ 0.05 (� 8 � mag �� 3) was thus derived. We proposed a way to derive the mass-distribution index, s = 1.82, from only our one-station data. The