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(meteorobs) An amazing collection of papers on the Leonids ...
... of 2001 and 2002 was published recently in a special issue of the Publications
of the Astronomical Society of Japan (Vol. 55 # 3) which should be available in
most professional astronomy libraries. Many of the papers (all by Japanese
authors, but in English :-) deal with video observations; e.g.
Watanabe & al., Meteoroid Clusters in Leonids: Evidence of Fragmentation in Space, L23
(deals with a burst of 38 meteors in 2 seconds in 2002 and explains it well as the
result of a dust particle that disrupted during the last perihelion 6 days earlier)
Torii & al., The Radiant Structure of the Leonid Meteor Storm in 2001: Observations
with a Telephoto Lens System, L27
Yanagisawa & al., High-Precision Radiant Analysis of the 2001 Leonids Using
Telescopic Optics, 553
Many of the experiments described in these and other papers would also work in
principle during regular meteor showers and not just during storms - thus the papers
help to cure the post-Leonids blues ...
Daniel Fischer,
Germany
CU@IMC!
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