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RE: (meteorobs) PD: ?P/2001 Q2 and Fireballs?
That is true what Rob says. Considerig however the orbits of both 103P and
P/2001 Q2, the next is possible.
If these comets are the result of a relatively recent split (possibly also
releasing a lot of particles), then there may be some lever meteor trail
left "in between" (and also more or less "outside" the increasing gap) these
comets. Because one of the comets passes inside the Earth orbit and the
other outside, there is hope of the expected meteor trail from the split
also crossing the Earth orbit. It would be interesting to try to study these
comets and related meteors more, once a better orbit for P/2001 Q2 is
available.
Esko
> > However, the following two Prairie Network fireballs, dated 1 Oct 1967
and
> > 22 Sep 1974 respectively, have D' values of 0.06 when tested against
P/2001
> > Q2, and the following orbital details should be compared to those of
P/2001
> > Q2 as given above,
>It would be necessary to compare with the comet orbit, pre-encounter with
>Jupiter. The current orbit of the comet, after a Jupiter encounter
probably
>bears little relationship to that before the encounter in terms of D
values.
>Cheers, Rob
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