February alpha Corvid (FAC#1101) meteors
Abstract
Low-light video observations show a compact but weakly active meteor shower with a radiant situated in the constellation of Corvus around February 16 in recent years. This newly identified shower has been listed in the IAU Working List of Meteor Showers as the February alpha Corvids (FAC #1101). The meteoroid stream responsible is in the orbit of an unknown long-period comet that passed close to Earth's orbit in a prior return to the inner solar system.
- Publication:
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eMeteorNews
- Pub Date:
- April 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021eMetN...6..335J
- Keywords:
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- alpha Corvids;
- CAMS