Meteor outbursts from long-period comet dust trails

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003icar..162..443l&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 162, Issue 2, p. 443-452.

Physics

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Scientific paper

Long-period comets have narrow one-revolution old dust trails that can cause meteor outbursts when encountered by Earth. To facilitate observing campaigns that will characterize and perhaps help find Earth-threatening, long-period comets from their trace of meteoric debris, we use past accounts of outbursts from 14 different showers to calculate the future dust trail positions near Earth's orbit. We also examine known near-Earth, long-period comets and identify five potential new showers, which can be utilized to learn more about these objects. We demonstrate that it is the one-revolution trail that is responsible for meteor outbursts. A method that calculates in what year these showers are likely to return and at what hour is presented. The calculations improve on earlier approximate methods that used the Sun's reflex motion to gauge the trail motion relative to Earth's orbit.

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