re: (meteorobs) Time of Geminid maximum

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• Subject: re: (meteorobs) Time of Geminid maximum
• From: kronkg@medicine.wustldot edu (Gary W. Kronk)
• Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 08:59:56 -0600
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Exact times are given for some meteor showers (usually the major ones) if
you begin at the address "http://medicine.wustldot edu/~kronkg/calendar.html"
and choose whatever month you want to look at. I did give 00:30 UT on the
13th as the time of Geminid maximum, but as Malcolm surmised I was using a
solar longitude that was in B1950. My new, corrected time which I just
computed a few minutes ago is the 13th at 17:20 UT (the times of the
passage through 262.0 is actually 17:12 to 17:34 UT). This is for J2000. I
am in the process of updating for the new year and all times accessed from
the Calendar page will be J2000.

Sorry for the confusion, I have had too many things going at once for the
last couple of months and, when I started adding the times, the J2000
factor didn't cross my mind.   :-)

Gary

• re: (meteorobs) Time of Geminid maximum
• From: Malcolm Currie <mjc@ast.star.rl.acdot uk>

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