(meteorobs) Two questions for meteorobs members
Roberto G.
md6648 at mclink.it
Wed Jul 28 13:13:08 EDT 2010
From: <Skywayinc at aol.com>
> QUESTION 1:
>
> When or who started naming meteors showers by the constellation patronym?
> The meteors from Perseus are ‘offspring’ or ‘descendents’ (literally!)
> from there. So they are the Perseides, or Perseids in English. This was
> the
> practice at least thru the 20th century but with showers recognized by the
> mid 19th I should think one of the early astronomers back then started
> with these names.
I think that only viewing a meteor storm somebody can to begin name
meteors from a costellation, and I think that sporadicly this system
was utilised from many peoples, but the very begin should be with
the Leonids of 1833, I think that it should read in the works of Olmsted
or peoples around this years 1830-1840 (John Locke, Quetelet?)
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/meteors/3304116.html?page=4&c=y
http://hbar.phys.msu.ru/gorm/atext/leonids.pdf
(a very good article on Leonids).
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli
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