Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jimo...31..148m&link_type=abstract
WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, vol. 31, no.5, p.148-152
Physics
Scientific paper
The 1956 Phoenicid outburst has been used as a standard for suggesting low-velocity meteor showers may be less readily observed by backscatter radar and forward-scatter radio observing methods. This derives from a single paper, (Weiss, 1958), in which a radar rate of 30 meteors per hour was claimed as unexpectedly low for the Phoenicids early in their outburst on 1956 December 5. In a re-examination of Weiss's paper, problems were found both in terms of what data were not recorded by radar during the outburst, and the supposed rate of 30 meteors per hour, which latter could not be confirmed. Instead an observed Phoenicid hourly radar rate of between ≃ 35-50 was revealed, possibly peaking between ≃ 10h20m and 11h10m UT, coincident with a potential first maximum of up to three suggested by the visual reports.
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