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From: John Greaves <crawl@zoom.codot uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:32:12 +0000
To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Subject: re Leo Minorids

Hi Lew, FAO meteorobs, if you like.


Ah, the Leo Minorids

Here's an URL to the abstract for the "discovery" paper, a "McCrosky and
Posen" work no less.

http://adsabs.harvarddot edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1959AJ.....64...25M&db_key=AST

The "Full Refereed Scanned Article" link will take you to the short paper,
which you can either read on line, or follow other links to download a ps
or pdf version.

It is associated with the Comet of 1739.

I say "discovery", as the authors themselves state that Denning probably
knew of it, but didn't define it properly [such things often seem to be due
to the concept of stationary radiants that was around in his day].

A while ago someone showed in the DMS magazine "Radiant" that the DMS
photographic and video orbits for this stream fitted the orbit of C/1739
very well indeed.

As Marco says, a much "forgotten" stream that is quite real.


Cheers,

John Greaves
UK

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