(meteorobs) North Apex and Leonid meteors

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• From: Paul Martsching <pmartsching@mchsi.com>
• Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:43:45 -0600
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I take it that the reason the period of Leonid observation which is 
generally given is so short is the close proximity of the North Apex 
radiant with the Leonid radiant and the impossibility of visually 
differentiating  between meteors from the two radiants.  So apparently 
when the number of North Apex meteors obviously gets swamped by the 
number of Leonids we begin to count all meteors coming from this region 
as Leonids?  A situation something akin to that of the Taurids and the 
October - November Antihelion meteors.

- Paul Martsching

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