Corvid meteoroids and a Giordano Bruno ray are genetically related

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Ejecta, Meteorite Craters, Meteoroid Showers, Meteoroids, Azimuth, Declination, Fragments, Impact Damage, Meteoritic Damage

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Both Corvid meteoroids and the Giordano Bruno (GB) crater are products of recent events. On June 25, or 26, 1178, Corvid meteoroids and a portion of GB ejecta were at the same place in the Solar System and moved in the same direction (right ascension = 12 degrees and declination = +19 degrees). The ground track of this direction is the same as that of the most prominant GB ray (azimuth = 237 degrees). These 'coincidences' could not have occurred by change and, therefore, support the conclusions that the GB impact occurred on June 26, 1178, and that Corvid meteoroids are high-velocity ejecta fragments from that impact. Finally, those fragments ejected with somewhat lower velocities failed to escape from the Earth-Moon system and produced the prominant ray extending southwest from the GB crater. Between June 25 and July 2, 1937, a Corvid meteor shower was observed. The apparent lack of Corvid showers in other years suggests that Corvids are the product of a recent break-up event. The right ascension and declination, corrected for zenith attraction, of 192 degrees and -19 degrees were reported for the radiant of this shower. This corresponds to a right ascension and declination of the direction of motion of Corvid meteoroids of 12 degrees and +19 degrees. In ecliptic coordinates the celestial longitude and latitude of this direction are 18 degrees and +13 degrees.

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