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re: (meteorobs) Re: Meteor Shower Question
There was a report in a 1995 WGN issue on the subject of a Hale-Bopp metor
shower being very unlikely.
I'll try and remember to bring it in tomorrow so I can quote some facts.
Some showers do in fact occur at this orbit to orbit distance, such as
May's eta-Aquarids (0.15 AU), but this is an older mature shower (possibly
20,000 years), and Halley's comet's 76 year orbit has ensured that comet
dust is all along the orbit...and it's great age has helped spread the
material out from the original orbital path into a wider area.
BTW, the other shower that no-one has named in January is the
Quadrantids, peaking with ZHR's over 100/Hr on January 3rd for a very few
hours. It is derived from Comet 96P /Machholz 1.
With rates like that, it would be very difficult to detect any
activity from another minor shower.
Not to mention all the frozen Brass monkeys :->
Wayne