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Lifetime of Meteor Streams Associated with Comet Halley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Hajdukova  and
A. Hajduk
M. Hajdukova
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
A. Hajduk
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 28 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Abstract

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Critical examination of the orbital parameters of particles ejected from comet Halley rejects the low age hypotheses for meteor showers associ- ated with the comet. The diffusion of the orbits of large particles is too slow for explaining the observed structural features of the stream. The mass-loss process as derived from space observations compared with the mass of the stream of particles deduced from flux data lead to comet lifetimes of the order of 105 years.

Type
Meteoroids and Meteor Streams
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 126: Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust , 1991 , pp. 323 - 326
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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