(meteorobs) February meteor outburst: new shower #427

Roberto G. md6648 at mclink.it
Wed Jul 13 17:29:17 EDT 2011


>From: "Jenniskens, Petrus M. (ARC-SST)[SETI INSTITUTE]" 
><petrus.m.jenniskens at nasa.gov>
>
> All,
>
> We detected a new shower in our CAMS video data of
> February 4, caused by Earth crossing the dust trail
> of a long-period comet. It was added to the IAU Working List
> as shower #427, the February eta Draconids.
>
> According to Esko Lyytinen's calculations, the shower
> may return in 2016 or 2023. More information is posted here:
>
> http://cams.seti.org
>
> -Peter Jenniskens

Congratulations!
>From my data I not found not this meteors in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli 




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