Observations of the 2001 Leonid meteor shower using VHF meteor radar |
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Authors: | Santiago de la Peña Susan K Avery |
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Institution: | a Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 216 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-216, USA b Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 426 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-425, USA |
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Abstract: | Every year the Earth crosses or passes near one of the dust trails left by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle in its pass through the Solar System every 33.2 years. This produces a meteor shower Commonly called the Leonid. The 2001 Leonid meteor shower is one of the strongest in recent years. We present observations made by the 50 MHz all-sky meteor radar located at the Platteville Atmospheric Observatory in Colorado (40° N, 105° W). The spatial and temporal distributions of the meteor activity detected by the radar during the 2001 Leonid shower differs from the observed sporadic activity detected by VHF radars. Estimation of the radiant flux of the meteor shower of the shower by a well-known methodology is presented, and the intensity of the phenomena is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Meteors |
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