The comet Halley meteoroid stream: just one more model

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Comets: Individual: P/Halley, Meteors, Meteoroids

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The present attempt to simulate the formation and evolution of the comet Halley meteoroid stream is based on a tentative physical model of dust ejection of large particles from comet Halley. Model streams consisting of 500-5000 test particles have been constructed according to the following ejection scheme. The particles are ejected from the nucleus along the cometary orbit (r < 9 au) within the sunward 70° cone, and the rate of ejection has been taken as proportional to r-4. Two kinds of spherical particles have been considered: 1 and 0.001 g with density equal to 0.25 g cm-3. Ejections have been simulated for 1404 BC, 141 AD and 837 AD. The equations of motion have been numerically integrated using the Everhart procedure. As a result, a complicated fine structure of the comet Halley meteoroid stream, consisting not of filaments but of layers, has been revealed.

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