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>is indicating too. And he is right that it has little meaning to use 5
>degrees for one and 10 degrees for another stream. Except perhaps for
>using a larger diameter for those streams you know have diffuse radiants
>(e.g. alfa Capricornids).
Hi Marco,
It is my understanding that this is how the various size diameters came into
existence...along with a "best-fit" trade-off in misclassified sporadics and
shower members. I believe it was from a study done by R. Koschak (sp?).
Although I think I have a copy of it here, I will take the easy way out and
leave the mathematics behind it to those who performed the study. ;->>
Clear skies!
Mark