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Surprising A-Carinids Shower

Surprising A-Carinids Shower

A Carinids

The night of October 13 on 14 saw significant meteor activity from an otherwise weak annual shower called the A-Carinids in the southern hemisphere. The radiant is not far from the southern ecliptic pole (latitude 77 degrees South). In a report to the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams, astronomer Peter Jenniskens reports that CAMS networks in Namibia, South Africa and Chile detected the shower between Oct. 12 20h UTC and Oct 14 9h UTC. The peak was at 1h51m UTC on Oct. 14 and activity was half that at the peak for about 3 hours. The orbit is that of a steeply inclined (54 degrees) Jupiter Family comet, but the parent body has not yet been found.


 

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