Talk:Meteor shower
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Not everything that links to "radiant" is using this meaning. Maybe there should be a disambig there.
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[edit] Unencyclopedic tone
- "From earliest times, humankind..."
Wow. That cliché has been there for two years and no one complains? Melchoir 00:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, the encyclopedic policy and tone are a little dry and rejectingly aloof, so nobody complains! Rursus 11:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] photo of a trail
could someone figure out if the image/description here is ok copyright for wikipedia? It's just so good but I generally find copyright issues confusing - see http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-04/ssc2005-04a.shtml --Smkolins 04:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comet identity
Quadrantids and South Delta Aquarids are connected to 96P/Machholz (?), but the end note says that the comet 96P/Machholz 2 AKA 1994o (???), autosmithereenized in 1994. But 96P/Machholz was discovered 1986, sez relevant article. What is then this 1994o stuff about? Rursus 11:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well from Comet Machholz it looks like the same discoverer for two comets with parts of these names and the former is the more famous. Going to Southern Delta Aquarids takes you to a citation which mentions 96P/Machholz specifically and not 1994o so it looks like we have a typo. --Smkolins 00:44, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] link to Eta Aquarids
?spelling of Eta Aquariids.
Eta Aquarids has a link125.238.100.74 22:51, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] (like opening a curtain, with grains piling up at the beginning and end of the gap)
Hi,
I don't get the connection. At least it took me more time to understand the sentence's idea than to understand what's happening. Maybe one could make it clearer that the dust that was put into a different orbit stays in that orbit for all time (when forgetting about afresh interaction with the earth). And that it has a different period now. And that the new orbit keeps hitting the earth orbit as it originated from there. 87.78.69.173 08:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] coming from the same point in the sky
How fast is the dust on the orbit? Just as fast as the comet? I think it needs to have the same speed (as a function of the place not the time). So I don't understand how the spreading over the orbit works, when this needs a different speed then the comet, and this means leaving the orbit?
But back to the question? I'd like to know how fast the dust is relative to earth speed. If the earth were much faster, one could see the meteors coming from the tangentialline to the orbit of the earth. Is that the case or is the speed of the comets higher?
JanCK 09:00, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
