(meteorobs) Dust trail of 45P (on Aug.12)

Geert Barentsen geert at barentsen.be
Tue Aug 2 08:08:38 EDT 2005


Ouch, given the radiant position (between capricornids, aquarids and the 
antihelion sporadics) -- it seems to me that accurate plotting from asia or 
america will be required to test this prediction? Furthermore the dates 
coincide with the perseid maximum :-(



At 11:57 2-8-2005, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am Mikiya Sato.
>I calculated a trail of 45P /Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova in 2005.
>The trail from 1959 will approach to the earth orbit this year.
>First, Sergey Shanov calculated this information and he informed me.
>I calculated more in detail. Please refer to the following page;
>
>http://kaicho.pobox.ne.jp/tenshow/meteor/note/45P-e.htm
>
>Outline:
>
>Trail from 1959 in 2005
>Time       (UT)   Sol.Long R(AU)  E.V.(m/s)fM     Alp.   Del   V(km/s)
>Aug.10.39 09:16   137.774 +0.037  -9.1008 0.027  325.04 -11.10 25.77  D.Node
>Aug.12.65 15:36*1 139.938  0.0017 -9.1040 0.026  325.02 -11.11 25.84  Min.
>
>*1: The time contains the error margin of a few minutes.
>
>A minimum distance point is not at Descending Node because of small
>inclination (about 2.6 deg.).
>The appearance level of meteor is uncertain, but the level is not
>so large (as meteor storm). However, I think that the meteor is
>appearable from this condition.
>
>Sergey showed that next approach will be in 2015 (dust from 1969).
>I want also to calculate the trail on the year in the near future.
>
>Mikiya Sato
>-----
>
>Post Script;
>My page of 2005 Perseids was also opened.
>But I do not have a new information.
>
>http://kaicho.pobox.ne.jp/tenshow/meteor/109p/2005e.htm
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