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The First in a New Series of Leonid Outbursts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

P. Jenniskens
P. Jenniskens*
Affiliation:
NASA/Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, ([email protected])

Abstract

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The Leonids returned with higher than usual rates in November 1994. From an analysis of the available visual and radio forward m teor scatter observations, it is found that the meteor stream activity curve and the magnitude distribution index are similar to those of the outbursts in 1961 and 1965 during the previous return of the parent comet. It is possible that the outburst was due to the same dust component or dust with a similar stream evolution history.

Type
III. Meteoroid Streams
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 117 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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