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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5352.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5352. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

Scientific paper

The point on the celestial sphere from which the meteors of a particular meteor shower all appear to diverge. Meteoroids in a particular meteor stream impinging on the Earth's atmosphere do so on essentially parallel paths. That they appear to an observer to radiate from a single point is an effect of perspective. Some showers have more than one radiant, representing different strands of meteoroi...

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