Meteoroid streams that trace to candidate dormant comets

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Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008icar..194...13j&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 194, Issue 1, p. 13-22.

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In an effort to identify space mission targets of interest, the association of known meteoroid streams with Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) was investigated. In addition to updating previous searches to include NEOs discovered up to January 1, 2007, a new dissimilarity criterion based on dynamical arguments was applied to evaluate the likelihood of each candidate association. The new criterion is based on the fact that the few established cases, such as 2003 EH1 and the Quadrantid stream, involve parent bodies that fragmented in the most recent nutation cycle of their secular orbital evolution. In established cases, the statistics speak strongly of an association due to the lack of NEOs in the a, e, i phase space occupied by these showers. The newly proposed associations are much more uncertain, because the odds of chance associations greatly increase as orbital inclination of the showers decreases. Forty-two plausible candidate dormant comets were identified, that deserve further scrutiny. Both comet and stream typically lack sufficient data to prove the association. Most candidate parent bodies pertain to NEOs with an aphelion distance just short of Jupiter's orbit, a perihelion distance near Earth orbit, and an eccentricity in the range 0.5 0.8. Surprisingly many have a>2.5AU, which means that most candidate parent bodies are dormant Jupiter family comets that have not yet fully decoupled from Jupiter. Establishing these associations can provide further evidence that (mostly) dormant comets break frequently, making this the dominant mechanism for replenishing the zodiacal cloud.

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