(meteorobs) New comet P/2016 BA14 PANSTARRS and a possible new meteor shower
Roberto Gorelli
md6648 at mclink.it
Mon Feb 15 11:39:56 EST 2016
Sorry for the bad English
Today was printed a MPEC circular MPEC 2016-C192
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K16/K16CJ2.html
with data on a new periodic comet: P/2016 BA14 PANSTARRS.
This comet has now a near reliable orbit of around 2.5 month.
Its perielium it's around 1.0 UA.
I calculated the possible linked meteor shower, here its data:
Right ascension 81.5°
Declination -38.8°
Vg 14.15 km/s
Vh 38.51 km/s
Maximum (2016) 21.0 March
D (MOID) 0.016 UA
The radiant should to be in Columba, around 6° from Alfa Columba
and around 16.5° from Canopus.
A Southern shower!
This comet it's a the near same place after 21 years, then it can to
be a periodicity with a similar period. Do there are data on meteor
around 21 march in the past?
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli
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