The rate profile of the Geminid meteor shower
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- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 205 (4) , 1155-1169
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/205.4.1155
Abstract
A model for the formation of the Geminid meteor stream is developed. It is shown that this formation mechanism causes certain features to develop in the model stream which will result in both the rate profile being skew and mass segregation being observable. Such features are in fact observed in the Geminid shower and the magnitude of the features in the model are compared with those observed.Keywords
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