(meteorobs) Meteoroid streams and the Moon

Rainer Arlt rarlt at aip.de
Mon Dec 1 06:04:17 EST 2008


Hi Shy and all,

> From what I thought so far (I'm not an expert so I may be mistaken), the
> direction of the radiant is not really the direction from which the
> meteoroids arrive from in space.

True, but the meteoroid 'shadow' cast by the moon will indeed
point in the geocentric vector direction, not in the helio-
centric. So the idea of the moon blocking meteoroids when 
near the radiant is indeed interesting.

best wishes,
rainer




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