Title

The Dynamics of Low-Perihelion Meteoroid Streams.

Authors

Paul Wiegert

Abstract

Abstract  The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) has collected information on a number of weak meteor showers that have not been well characterized in the literature. A subsample of these showers (1) do not show a strong orbital resemblance to any known comets or asteroids, (2) have highly inclined orbits, (3) are at low perihelion distances ($$\ll 1$$ AU) and (4) are at small semimajor axes (

Subjects

ASTRONOMY; ELECTRONIC pulse techniques; ORBITS (Astronomy); METEOROIDS

Publication

Earth, Moon & Planets, 2008, Vol 102, Issue 1-4, p15

ISSN

0167-9295

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1007/s11038-007-9182-2