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Re: (meteorobs) re: shower predictions
Interestingly, meteor showers do not ever seem to be associated with their
discoverers in any but the most detailed, historically-oriented accounts.
Instead, they are quite rightly associated with either their peak radiant
position on the celestial map, or with their parent solar-system body.
Perhaps this is because there is little interest in the discovery of new
meteor showers? Or more likely, it may be because no (minor) meteor shower
can be properly verified without years of painstaking observation of the
suspect shower, by observers all across the globe. So in truth, there must
be many "discoverers" involved for most showers to be recognized as such.
Anyway all the academical (and in my belief, destructive and distracting)
debates about scientific precedence seem to be largely and happily absent
from the science of meteors.
Clear skies!
Lew Gramer
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