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Re: (meteorobs) Meteor paths & southern hemisphere.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Rob McNaught wrote:
> Alternatively, q is inside the
> Earth's orbit and the argument of perihelion (w, that is small omega) is
> close to 90 or 270 degrees. In that case, one intersection is north
> of the ecliptic and the other south.
Should have added that the nodal distance must be around 1AU for this
general condition. The nodal distance is the distance the ellipse is from
the Sun where it intersects the plane of the Earth's orbit.
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