(meteorobs) Quick Perseid 'Clump' Observation

[Steven Kolins]

On Aug 14, 2010, at 4:11 PM, meteors at comcast.net wrote:

> Both my daughter and I noticed this during our observing the mornings of 
> August 12 and 13.


My daughter and I only managed the 12th but again agree.

Here's an idea - maybe the ejected material from a comet evaporates until two or three dust bits are glued together by frozen gasses which takes longer to evaporate as it's kind of shielded. Then when it does finally break up the last bits start close together and get a very gentle push from the last evaporation and orbit  pretty darn close to eachother until in the rounds of orbits it finally comes to us.

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