(meteorobs) 2004 MN4 and possibile meteorites shower

[Marco Langbroek]

> There are, near certainly a cloud of very
> little fragments around it (in orbit or in
> the same orbit) then it's possible that around
> the April 13th it shall be a bolid shower
> and too, because the asteroid it's not a
> ice ball but a rocky body, a meteorites
> shower: a meteorites shower in the form
> of fall of meteorites in one hemisphere,
> each meteorite with all the phaenomena that
> we see in a meteorite fall (bolid, fragmentation,
> sounds, etc.).

Below some output from Neslusan's program for theoretic radiant. This will
be very slow meteors, Vgeo 5.8 km/s! Southern declination of the radiant:
not a stream for the hiigh northern hemisphere.

- Marco

             EQUINOX: 2000.0;       DATA FOR YEAR: 2029
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METH.  ALPHA  DELTA    VG      VH        L     DATE-MAX.    D-DISC.
 -Q    214.3  -30.8    5.85   28.42     24.5   APR. 14.6     .001
 -B    214.4  -30.8    5.86   28.42     24.5   APR. 14.6     .000
 -W    214.5  -30.9    5.84   28.41     24.5   APR. 14.6     .001
 -A    214.2  -30.9    5.84   28.41     24.2   APR. 14.3     .000
 -H    214.2  -30.8    5.84   28.41     24.2   APR. 14.3     .000
 -P    214.3  -30.8    5.84   28.41     24.3   APR. 14.3     .000
 Q+    225.7    3.4    5.40   31.78    204.5   OCT. 18.0     .185
 B+    225.4     .4    6.40   32.31    204.5   OCT. 18.0     .179
 W+    192.5   11.9    5.97   28.61    204.5   OCT. 18.0     .222
 A+    253.3   -7.0    5.81   29.02    271.3   DEC. 23.3     .062
 H+    252.5  -15.7    5.63   29.02    271.2   DEC. 23.2     .053
 P+    250.4  -12.2    5.78   29.01    268.6   DEC. 20.7     .054
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FIRST/SECOND (-/+) SET OF DATA CONCERNS THE PRE-/POST-PERIHELION ARC
THE BEST METHOD - PRE-PERIHELION ARC:  H     (D =  .000)
                - POST-PERIHELION ARC: H     (D =  .053)