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The distribution of hydrogen in the telluric hydrogen corona is calculated by identifying the components of a fictitious hydrostatic distribution which are actually present in the real atmospheric distribution. The components which are clearly present are the captive ballistic orbits and the escaping ballistic orbits which originate near the base of the exosphere. The components which are clearly absent are the hyperbolic orbits which originate in space; these consist of two groups, those which do not intersect the base of the exosphere and which return to space and those which intersect the base of the exosphere and which are capture orbits. Trapped elliptic orbits, or satellite orbits, may or may not be present, but near the earth they are probably occupied. Each of these components can be evaluated as an explicit portion of a hydrostatic distribution, and the distribution calculated from the hydrostatic distribution in a straightforward manner. Calculations are presented for temperatures of 10000 and 15000 K.
Francis S. Johnson (Wed,) studied this question.