Meteor showers associated with the near-Earth asteroid (2101) Adonis

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...397..319b&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.397, p.319-323 (2003)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Comets: General, Meteors, Meteoroids, Minor Planets, Asteroids

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The orbital evolution of the near-Earth asteroid (2101) Adonis under gravitational action of six planet (Mercury to Saturn) is investigated by the Halphen-Goryachev method. The theoretical geocentric coordinates and velocities of four possible meteor showers associated with this asteroid are determined. Using published data, the theoretically predicted showers are identified with the observed ones, namely, night-time sigma -Capricornids and chi -Sagittariids, and day-time chi -Capricornids and Capricornids-Sagittariids. The existence of meteor showers associated with Adonis provides evidence supporting the conjecture that this asteroid may be of a cometary nature. The small 50-m near-Earth asteroid 1995 CS probably represents a large Adonis fragment and belongs to a part of the Adonis meteoroid stream, which produces the day-time chi -Capricornids meteor shower.

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