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No Meteor Storms Expected from P/Machholz 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

D.J. Asher  and
D.I. Steel
D.J. Asher
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan
D.I. Steel
Affiliation:
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

Abstract

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P/1994 P1 Machholz 2 is the first Earth-crossing shortperiod comet to have been observed to have split since 3D/Biela about 150 years ago, and that fragmentation resulted in the Andromedid meteor storms of 1872 and 1885. Thus a pertinent question is whether meteor storms might result from P/Machholz 2 in the foreseeable future. Here we integrate its orbit to ascertain when the node might next occur near a heliocentric distance of 1 AU, and find that this is not anticipated far over 1000yr, although some meteor activity in ∽300yr is possible. On such time-scales the recently-released debris will have dispersed, so that meteor storms are not expected from this comet.

Type
III. Meteoroid Streams
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 129 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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