Detection of the Phoenicids meteor shower in 2014
| Autor: | Peter Brown, Mikiya Sato, William J. Cooke, Chie Tsuchiya, Jun-ichi Watanabe, Althea V. Moorhead, Danielle E. Moser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Meteor (satellite)
Zenithal hourly rate 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Meteoroid media_common.quotation_subject Comet Interplanetary medium Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics 01 natural sciences Space and Planetary Science Sky 0103 physical sciences Observation method Meteor shower 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Planetary and Space Science. 143:132-137 |
| ISSN: | 0032-0633 |
| Popis: | An appearance of the Phoenicids meteor shower was predicted in 2014 by using a dust trail simulation of an outburst of 1956. We detected Phoenicids meteors on December 2 through multiple observation methods. The NASA All Sky Fireball Network and the Southern Ontario Meteor Network detected five meteors of Phoenicids via video observation. The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) found fourteen candidate meteors, eight of which were confirmed as Phoenicids. The observed radiant point is consistent with that of our model predictions. In addition to the above observations, a visual observation was carried out by the Japanese team near the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) of Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in La Palma Island. The obtained zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) was 16.4±4.9. The maximum ZHR was roughly estimated to be between 20 and 30, which indicates that the cometary activity of parent object 289P/Blanpain in the early 20th century was only about one fifth or one eighth as high as its activity in the late 18th and early 19th century. Accordingly, it seems to be the case that 289P/Blanpain is gradually transforming from a comet to a dormant object. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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