From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2001 - 18:35:37 MST
Andrew Clough:
>This brings me to something I found a little
>puzzling. Near the beginning of the shower, the meteors seemed to be
>brighter than the ones that came later.
I think it's simple geometry. The trajectories of the earlier meteors
intersected the Earth face-on (say 70 km/sec) than the later ones (grazing).
Picture in your mind how the Earth is rotatng as it intersects the trail(s).
>If somebody knows the
>>answer, or even just solar wind density and velocity, along with the
>>velocity of the comet at the time the meteors broke off
......except that we didn't have spacecraft measuring the
solar wind speed/density way back then ...
(The dust trails from this shower are associated with the 1767, 1699, and
1866 perihelion passages of comet Temple-Tuttle)
Amara
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