Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets

Peter Jenniskens

Cambridge University Press, 2006

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This unique handbook for astronomers explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. The author identifies all known meteor showers and also predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next 50 years.

ISBN-13
9780521853491
ISBN-10
0521853494
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-09-14
Pages
804
Dimensions
185x261x53
Weight
1652