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Leonids 2006 observations of the tail of trails: Where is the comet fluff?

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In 2006, Earth encountered a trail of dust left by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle two revolutions ago, in A.D. 1932. The resulting Leonid shower outburst was observed by low light level cameras from locations in Spain. The outburst peaked on 2006 Nov. 19d 04h39m ± 3m UT (predicted: 19d 04h50m ± 15m UT), with a FWHM of 43 ± 10 min (predicted: 38 min), at a peak rate of ZHR=80±10/h (predicted: 50-200 per hour). A low level background of older and brighter Filament Leonids ( chi˜2.1) was also present, which dominated rates for Leonids brighter than magnitude +4. The 1932-dust outburst was detected among Leonids of +0 magnitude and brighter. These outburst Leonids were much brighter than expected, with a magnitude distribution index chi=2.60±0.15 (predicted: chi=3.47 and up). Trajectories and orbits of 24 meteors were calculated, most of which are part of the Filament component. Those that were identified as 1932-dust grains penetrated just as deep as Leonids in past encounters. We conclude that larger meteoroids than expected were present in the tail of the 1932-dust trail and meteoroids did not end up there because of low density. We also find that the radiant position of meteors in the Filament component scatter in a circle with radius 0.39°, which is wider than in 1998, when the diameter was 0.09°. This supports the hypothesis that the Filament component consists of meteoroids in mean-motion resonances.

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hal-03730700 , version 1 (20-07-2022)

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Peter Jenniskens, Katherine de Kleer, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, José María Madiedo, et al.. Leonids 2006 observations of the tail of trails: Where is the comet fluff?. Icarus, 2008, 196, pp.171-183. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2008.02.026⟩. ⟨hal-03730700⟩
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