(meteorobs) New meteor shower?

[Francisco Ocaña]

2008 J4 is possibly under disintegration (Michael Jäger images, more 
information at: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ ), so more chances for 
activity (but more difficulties for getting accurate astrometry).

Clear skies and close cometary orbits!

Paco Ocaña

Roberto G. escribió:
> The comet C/2008 J4 (McNaught) has actually a MOID with the Earth
> of  0.0442596 U.A.,
>
> http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2008+J4&orb=1
>
> its orbit it's calculated from only a little arc of orbit of some days, I 
> asked
> to some friends that have amatorial observatory to take new positions for
> to have a better orbit, if the real MOID it's littlest of the actual data
> there is the possibility that we can see a meteor shower from this comet
> around 10-11 July, for the Austral hemisphere, the comet passed
> near the Earth orbit around 11-12 May, 60 days before the Earth.
> But at today this it's only a hope.
> Best greetings.
> Roberto Gorelli
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