The rate profile of the Geminid meteor shower

Title:              The rate profile of the Geminid meteor shower
Authors:            FOX, K.; WILLIAMS, I. P.; HUGHES, D. W.
Affiliation:        AB(Queen Mary College, London, England)
                    AC(Sheffield, University, Sheffield, England)
Journal:            Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices (ISSN
                    0035-8711), vol. 205, Dec. 1983, p. 1155-1169.
Publication Date:   12/1983
Origin:             STI
Category:           Astronomy
NASA/STI Keywords:  GEMINID METEOROIDS, METEOROID SHOWERS, RATES (PER
                    TIME), SKEWNESS, ANOMALIES, COSMIC DUST, CROSS
                    SECTIONS, HISTOGRAMS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Bibliographic Code: 1983MNRAS.205.1155F

Abstract

A model for the formation of the Geminid meteor stream is developed. It is shown that this formation mechanism causes certain features to develop in the model stream which will result in both the rate profile being skew and mass segregation being observable. Such features are in fact observed in the Geminid shower and the magnitude of the features in the model are compared with those observed.

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