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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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
