Meteor observations in Japan: new implications for a Taurid meteoroid swarm

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Jun 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.297...23a&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 297, Issue 1, pp. 23-27.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets: Individual: 2P/Encke, Meteors, Meteoroids

Scientific paper

Observational evidence is sought that the long-term (10^4 yr) action of a mean motion resonance with Jupiter can produce structure in a meteoroid stream, concentrating meteoroids in a dense swarm. More specifically, predictions tabulated by Asher & Clube of enhanced meteor and fireball activity from a Taurid Complex swarm in the 7:2 resonance are compared with observational data collected in Japan over several decades. The swarm model was proposed for reasons independent of the observations analysed here, and these newly considered data are shown to be consistent with it. This allows increased confidence in the Taurid swarm theory, and more generally could mean that resonant trapping is a dynamical mechanism affecting a significant amount of meteoroidal material in the inner Solar system.

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