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(meteorobs) RE: meteorobs-digest V1 #379
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>From: tpcooper@ilink.nis.za
>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 20:35:10 +0200
>Subject: (meteorobs) Sender: owner-meteorobs
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>>>Pheonicids c Blancplain 1819 IV
>>This association is a result of some irritation of citations in the past. It is
>>simply wrong. The parent body is unknown. One used this comet to construct
the
>>orbital elements of the Phoenicids under te assumption they are associated.
And
>>later, astronomers were surprised that the orbital elements of Phoenicids and
>>Blanplain coincide well...what a surprise!
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The association between the Alpha Monocerotids and comet Van Gent-Peletier
was also proven to be wrong due to the orbital obervations done by DMS during
the 1995 display. This proof is to apper in an article scheduled for the February
issue of Astrophysical Journal.
Marc
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