Meteor showers and their parent comets /

"Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. The author, a leading astronomer in the field and an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of comets (and asteroids) an...

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Main Author: Jenniskens, Petrus Matheus Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a PART I: INTRODUCTION: How meteor showers were linked to comets -- What is the core of comets? -- The formation of meteoroid streams -- Meteors from meteoroid impacts on Earth -- Comet and meteoroid orbits -- PART II: PARENT BODIES: Long-period comets -- Halley-type comets -- Jupiter-family comets -- Fading comets of the inner Solar System -- Asteroids as parent bodies of meteoroid streams -- PART III: YOUNG STREAMS FROM WATER VAPOR DRAG: Forecasting meteor storms from what planets do to dust trails -- Meteor storm chasing -- Meteor outbursts from long-period comets -- Trapped: the Leonid Filament -- The Leonid storms -- The Ursids -- The Perseids -- Other Halley-type comets -- Dust trails of Jupiter-family comets -- PART IV: YOUNG STREAMS FROM COMET FRAGMENTATION: Quadrantids -- Broken comets -- Geminids -- The sunskirting Arietids and -Aquariids -- x-Capricornids and k-Cygnids -- The Taurid complex -- PART V: OLD STREAMS AND SPORADIC METEOROIDS: Annual showers -- Dispersion from gradually evolving parent body orbits -- The ecliptic streams -- Toroidal streams -- Meteor showers from asteroids -- Sporatic meteors and the zodiacal cloud -- PART VI: IMPACT AND RELEVANCE OF METEOR SHOWERS: Impact! -- Meteor showers on other planets -- Meteors and the origin of life. 
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