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8. Quadrantid Meteor Shower: Eleven Years of Radar Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

B. A. McIntosh

Abstract

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In studying the evolution of meteor streams from cometary debris it is desirable to know the distribution of particles both around the orbit and in the cross section perpendicular to the orbit. Earth-based observations are limited to a once-per-year sample and also limited by the position of the observer on earth as it crosses the meteor stream. A continuous series, 11 years, of records of the Quadrantid meteor shower illustrates the problems and the results that can be achieved. International cooperation would greatly assist such studies.

Type
Part III. Meteors and Meteoroids
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 39: Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites: Interrelations, Evolution and Origins , December 1977 , pp. 171 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © A.H. Delsemme 1977

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