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Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for

astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts.

Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the

Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes

a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed.

Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid

streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and

asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. He includes

the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the

risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have

seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible. All

known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating

details on the most important showers and their parent comets. The

book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the

next 50 years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and

professional astronomers.

Part I. Introduction:

1. How meteor showers were linked to comets

2. What is at the core of comets?

3. The formation of meteoroid streams

4. Meteors from meteoroid impacts in Earth

5. Comet and meteoroid orbits in space and time

Part II. Parent Bodies: 6. Long period comets

7. Halley-type comets

8. Jupiter-family comets

9. Fading comets of the inner solar system

10. Asteroids

Part III. Young Streams from Whipple-type Ejection:

11. What planets do to dust trails

12. Meteor storm chasing

13. Meteor outbursts from long-period comets

14. Trapped: the Leonid Filament

15. The Leonid storms

16. The Ursids

17. The Perseids

18. Other Halley-type comets

19. Dust trails of Jupiter-family comets

Part IV. Young Streams from Comet Fragmentation:

20. Broken comets

21. Quadrantids

22. Geminids

23. The sunskirting streams: Arietids and delta-Aquariids

24. Alpha-Capricornids and kappa-Cygnids

25. The Taurid complex

Part V. Old Streams and Sporadic Meteoroids:

26. Annual showers

27. Dispersion from gradually evolving parent body orbits

28. The ecliptic streams

29. Toroidal streams

30. Meteor showers from asteroids

31. Sporadic meteors and the zodiacal cloud

Part VI. Impact and Relevance of Meteor Showers:

32. Impact!

33. Meteor showers on other planets

34. Meteors and the origin of life

Appendices

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书籍介绍

Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed. Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. He includes the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible. All known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating details on the most important showers and their parent comets. The book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next 50 years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and professional astronomers.