(meteorobs) "The" shape of the Perseids ZHR profile

dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de
Wed Aug 14 21:23:38 EDT 2013


With the 2013 peak having stabilized (I think), we have now automatically
generated ZHR profiles of the past seven Perseids maxima, shown all at
once in http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/perseid-plots.html
(unfortunately the time axis labeling changes several times) - is there
*any* "typical" shape of the peak underlying these year-to-year
variations? In some years identified individual dust trails contributed
'extra' peaks, I think, e.g. in 2009.

Daniel




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