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Recent Visual Observations of the Leonid Meteor Shower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

P. Brown
P. Brown*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada

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We know the Leonid shower primarily from its record of visual appearances over the last millenium. The period of the stream and its status as a cosmic phenomenon are all intimately linked to historical visual observations of the stream. The advent of modern observational techniques in meteor astronomy such as radar and photography has not decreased the value of visual recordings of the stream; on the contrary, visual observations form our primary means of long-term monitoring of the shower.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 1013 - 1014
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Copyright © Kluwer 1998