(meteorobs) Orionids from Greece

[Chris Peterson]

It's more than a perceptual phenomenon. Events which can be described by a 
Poisson distribution (which pretty reasonably includes both shower and 
sporadic meteors) exhibit an actual clustering in frequency (this is 
described by noise theory).

Any basic treatment of statistics will explain this phenomenon.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Antier" <ka.antier at wanadoo.fr>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Orionids from Greece


> Dear Rainer and all,
>
> That's a phenomenon (the impression, seen from a human brain,
> that sometimes, meteors of a given shower, appear in groups
> and not sporadically)I wanted to study several weeks ago, but I
> haven't yet begin. But as you mention it on meteorobs, I would
> like to ask if some of you are aware of papers or people who
> ever worked on that topic?
> If it's the case, does anyone know where I can find the results
> of their work, or contact them?