An investigation of meteors in early April

The moon - Tập 68 - Trang 141-153 - 1995
Terrance R. Arter1, Iwan P. Williams1
1Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary and Westfield College

Tóm tắt

In conducting a search through the IAU Meteor Catalogue at Lund, a peak in activity on April 8th, not corresponding to any known shower was discovered. Analysis of the orbit shows that a subset of those meteors originated on very coherent orbits. It is suggested that there could either represent a hither to unidentified stream or that they are meteoroids which, like the April Lyrids, were ejected from Comet Thatcher but have arrived onto their current orbits as a consequence primarily of Poynting - Robertson drag.

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