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(meteorobs) clumps
Hi Kiko,
I agree completely that the associated meteors are
separated by hundreds of kilometers.
It is a dynamic process over time that would
cause the individual pieces to 'string out' from the original
parent.
If no time has passed a 'parent' clump would enter
as a significant fireball. If a brief time had passed (the guys who understand
the dynamics would fill in this blank).... I would think we would see
simultaneous (or nearly) meteors in close proximity as we saw during the Leonids
this year. As the time line increases, a the interval would increase
but still share the same path. Finally after sufficient time the separation
would prevent detecting any connection of sharing a parent
particle.
A meteor shower is by definition a clumping affect
whereby a parent object sheds material along the same trajectory.
The micro version of this within a shower would be
a relatively small meteor disassociating into smaller meteors.
This discussion here thus far, seems to concentrate
mainly on the definition of randomness. Which is to say that clumping is to be
expected but due solely to the process of randomness.
Basically, I am wondering if someone could
address the plausibility of clumping along my line of reasoning.
How long would the particles remain within a couple
of hundred kilometers of each other?
Could such a separation take place? and so
on
Tom