Aurigids (APOD 05 Sep 2007)

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Aurigids (APOD 05 Sep 2007)

Post by Chris Peterson » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:34 am

There's an error in the writeup for the 5 September 2007 image of the Aurigids. While the source of the debris that produced last weekend's shower was from the ~83 BCE passage of Comet Kiess (C/1911 N1), that wasn't the most recent passage of the comet through the inner Solar System. Its last passage was in 1911, the year it was discovered.
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Post by Indigo_Sunrise » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:58 am

Good catch. I had read that elsewhere, too.

Too bad here on the east coast, at least where I am, they weren't viewable. I do like looking at the pix taken by others, though.
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