(meteorobs) What is the PCA meteor shower currently active?

George S. Williams ra at websterling.com
Sat Jul 19 18:34:47 EDT 2014


On 7/19/2014 6:06 PM, Pierre Martin wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> The past few days, I noticed that the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar at http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov is showing an active radiant just north of Cassiopeia with the three letter code "PCA".  The plotted meteors appear to be medium-fast velocity, and the radiant seems very wide.
>
> Does anyone know what this shower is?

Hey, Pierre,

The shower is the psi Cassiopeiids

http://www.astro.amu.edu.pl/~jopek/MDC2007/Roje/pojedynczy_obiekt.php?kodstrumienia=00187

Later,
George


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