(meteorobs) Phoenicids 2014 (Mikiya Sato)

Roberto Gorelli md6648 at mclink.it
Fri Oct 24 05:25:08 EDT 2014


On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:48:31 +0400
  "Sergey Shanov" <shanov-2004 at yandex.ru> wrote:

>> Only a little question:
>> the Phoenicids should to be at -53?, in
>> http://meteor.kaicho.net/PHO2014/ they are at -27?
>> they changed orbit and declinations?
>> Best greetings.
>> Roberto Gorelli
> 
> The orbits of comets of the family of Jupiter are not constant. The 
> declination has varied. Besides visible radiant will be still biased 
>to 
> zenith because of small geocentric speed of meteors (because of 
>zenith 
> attraction).
> 
> Sergey

I known this, in this case we have more of 20° of difference in 
declination then do we should change the name of the shower?
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli





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