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(meteorobs) clumping
Looking into the heart of a comet.... We can see
debris ablated by the Solar Wind and the radiant energy of the Sun. This is
the source of the random distribution process that leads to clumping (a
statistical treatment).
But........
Once a mass has broken free, it may be subjected to
further stress or collision creating a mini-association of related particles.
Over time these will drift apart (in detail best exactly described by
the pros) and yet appear physically along
the same path.
It is one thing to see a spike in your count as
meteors enter on various paths. It is another to see them in parallel paths with
only a mile or so of divergence and separated in time by a few seconds.
It is my hypothesis that particles exhibiting this
behavior are from a parent particle and that the clumping is not random. This is
not to say that there is some larger parent out there but that the particle has
broken up into smaller components. This is the point where random clumping
become sytematic clumping.
Any thoughts?
Tom
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