(meteorobs) How many meteorites are associated with meteor showers?

Bruce McCurdy bmccurdy at telusplanet.net
Thu Nov 12 16:05:45 EST 2009


    Pat, I'm not the expert that some on this list most certainly are, but 
to the best of my understanding the two are mutually exclusive. The cometary 
debris that provides our beautiful meteor showers is in no way substantive 
enough to make it all the way through the atmosphere.

    Bruce
    *****


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat" <pat_branch at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:01 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) How many meteorites are associated with meteor showers?


> Do we have any witnessed falls that resulted in recovery of a meteorite 
> that can also be traced back to a specific meteor shower? I know Peter J 
> recovered material from TC3 in the Sudan but that one was a random 
> meteoroid. Do we have any from known showers that can then be associated 
> with the known sapce body that produced it?
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