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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5335. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

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A continuous ribbon of meteoroids in a closed orbit around the Sun. (The more correct term meteoroid stream is seldom used.) A meteor stream consists of dust particles shed by a comet on its perihelion passages which have gradually spread around the comet's orbit. When the Earth passes through a meteor stream, there is a meteor shower when up to about 100 meteors per hour may be seen. Most of the...

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