The Orbit of the Kappa Cygnid and Related Meteor Streams

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Jan 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995em%26p...68..397l&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 68, Issue 1-3, pp. 397-404

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Meteoroid Streams, Cygnids, Orbits

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A study of the Kappa Cygnid and other minor streams of the August epoch is presented based on a computer search in a sample of 3518 photographic meteoroid orbits. Four different meteoroid streams with radiants in Cygnus, Draco and Lyra, were found. Three of these: the Kappa Cygnids, the Alpha Lyrids and the Zeta Draconids are identified with meteor showers reported by nineteenth century visual observers. The fourth stream, the August Lyrids, consists of six meteors with radiants in Lyra centered on α = 277°.6,δ = 46°.2. No previous visual reports of this stream have been found. It is interesting to note that all four meteoroid streams are coincident in time; their orbits are all of short period and they all have very nearly the same orientation of semi-major axis.

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