Re: (meteorobs) The formulae of ZHR

To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) The formulae of ZHR
From: Rainer Arlt <rarlt@aipdot de>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:11:51 +0200 (MEST)
In-Reply-To: <000a01c0f71c$54756aa0$c72564d3@huanmeng> from "Huan Meng" at Jun 17, 2001 06:57:36 PM
Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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> > There was an article by Janko Richter in WGN a
> > few years ago (?) which pointed to this little inconsistency in the
> > standard ZHR formula(*), and since then the correct formula (with +1) has
> > been used in all shower reports.
> 
> It seemed you have a wrong mind.:-)
> Today, I looked for this article in ADS (The NASA Astrophysics Data System)
> and IMO's Bibliographic Meteor Database, and went over all the articles
> which was as late as this May. But I didn't find this one. Had you got a
> remembering mistake?
> 
> Huan Meng   meteorobs@263dot net

That is why I have described in one of the June-Bootid articles.
I think it was JBO 2000 article, check for that.

I planned on writing a detailed article about these various
items of meteor statistics, but got distracted from that due
to other things. Good reminder...

Rainer


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Re: (meteorobs) The formulae of ZHR

From: "Huan Meng" <meteorobs@263dot net>