Electronic Telegram No. 5456
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2024 DRACONID METEOR OUTBURST
     D. Vida, A. Egal, P. Brown, and M. Campbell-Brown, University of Western
Ontario; and W. Cooke and D. Moser, Meteoroid Environment Office, NASA, report
an outburst of the Draconid meteor shower observed by the Global Meteor
Network (GMN).  The outburst peaked at a zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of 15.7
+/- 1.4 meteors/hr at solar longitude 195.08 +/- 0.05 deg (2024 Oct. 8d05h15m
UTC +/- 1 hour).  The ZHR was computed assuming a mass index of s = 2.0 and a
population index of r = 2.5.  The total period of elevated activity lasted
approximately 10 hours.  Detailed data and plots are available on the GMN flux
webpage at URL https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux.  Observations by the
Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) show a similar peak at solar longitude
195.133 +/- 0.04 deg.  Preliminary dynamical modeling suggests that the
outburst may have been caused by a trail ejected from comet 21P/Giacobini-
Zinner in 1900.  The authors thank all participants in the Global Meteor
Network project.


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2024 October 12                  (CBET 5456)              Daniel W. E. Green