An Unusual Meteor Shower on 1 September 2007

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Aug 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007eostr..88..317j&link_type=abstract

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 88, Issue 32, p. 317-318

Physics

Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies: Comets: Dust Tails And Trails (6210), Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Comets (6023), Geochemistry: Composition Of Meteorites (3662, 6240)

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Around 83 B.C., give or take a century, comet Kiess (C/1911 N1) passed by the Sun, ejecting a cloud of dust particles. The comet returned in 1911, after completing one orbit. The dust particles were pushed by solar radiation pressure into slightly wider orbits and have been returning ever since, forming a thin ongoing stream of dust that usually passes just outside Earth's orbit. On occasion, the combined gravity of the solar system's planets moves this dust trail into Earth's path. Earth encountered this 2000-year-old dust in 1935, 1986, and 1994, causing a meteor shower known as the Aurigids.

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