Lunar impacts during eclipses separated by a Metonic cycle on Jan 21, 2000 and 2019: a possible origin from daytime Sagittarids/Capriconids meteor shower
Abstract
The lunar impact claimed by Zuluaga et al. (2019) during the total eclipse of 21 January has been discussed widely by his research group, introducing some results from the technique of gravitational ray-tracing. A similar event of magnitude 6 was observed visually by the author during the eclipse of 19 years before, that was published under the name of "Padua event" (Sigismondi and Imponente, 2000a,b) and a video was obtained independently by Gary Emerson (Cudnik, 2002) in the US at the same time. The remarkable repetition of such a phenomenon after 19 years deserves some investigation about known active meteor shower on Jan 21 with radiant comprised between the solar longitude 300.7° of January 21 and +/- 60° and declination also departing no more than 60° from the solar one. The amount of 60° is the FWHM of a simple modulated probability model on the visibility of a lunar meteor impact with the cosine of the angle comprised between the line of sight and the normal to the lunar surface. The candidate of this search is the daytime shower Sgr/Cap DSC115 with meteoroid velocities around 26 km/s.
- Publication:
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Gerbertvs, International Academic Publication on History of Medieval Science
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1902.03137
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1902.03137
- Bibcode:
- 2019Gerb...12...65S
- Keywords:
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- Lunar Impact;
- Meteor Shower;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages including an Italian abstract