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Enviado: Martes, 20 de Marzo de 2001
11:05 p.m.
Asunto: (meteorobs) Possible meteor
shower discovery!
Greetings to you all!
I am new in this list. I
subscribed after an invitation from Dr. Julian
Chela Flores.
I
wanted to write to you with regards to a possible discovery of a
Meteor
Shower I made. Firstly I would like to talk to you a little
about my
astronomy work: I am responsible for the comet finder charts
and orbit
diagrams published at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Comet
Observation
Homepage. Since 1999 I have published finder charts
and orbit diagrams for
almost every new comet.
Well, a new comet was
recently discovered. IAUC 7546 (December 20, 2000)
and MPEC 2000-Y20
(December 20, 2000) announced the discovery of C/2000 WM1
(LINEAR) that has
the potential to reach naked-eye brightness less than a
year from
now. After I read the reports, I began to do some basic
orbital
analysis. During the analysis, I found out that the ascending
node of the
comet's orbit was very close to the Earth's orbit. Then I
simulated the
movement of the comet and the Earth. First, the comet
crosses its orbit's
ascending node. Some months later the Earth
arrives to the closest point to
the comet's ascending node. At this
time it is probable to watch a meteor
shower produced by the recently
discovered frozen body.
I find this event very exciting because it
could provide us with a good
research opportunity to study the composition
of a long period comet.
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) is estimated to have a period
of 13,078,996 years.
Meteoroids coming from this comet could show us the
composition of its
nucleus, telling us about the chemical elements and
compounds that were
present during the formation of our Solar
System.
I invite you all to visit my web page about C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
, look at
the simulations and send your comments to the list or to my
e-mail.
http://gdrayer.tripod.com/WM1/WM1sim.htm
Best
regards,
Gregorio Drayer
Gregorio E. Drayer-Andrade
URL: http://gdrayer.tripod.com
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