Meteor shower activity derived from meteor watching public campaign in Japan

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作者
Ishizaki, Masaharu [1 ]
Watanabe, Jun-ichi [1 ]
Sato, Mikiya [2 ]
机构
[1] Natl Astron Observ Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[2] Kawasaki Municipal Sci Museum, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 4648602, Japan
关键词
Meteors; Meteor showers; Visual observations; Outreach;
D O I
10.1016/j.pss.2017.01.006
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have carried out a meteor watching public campaigns from 2004 for major meteor showers in the case of appropriate observing condition as one of the outreach programs conducted by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. We received a huge number of the reports on meteor counts from the general public participants. The results sometimes show similar time variation of the hourly rates derived from the data collected by skilled observers. In this paper, some of the results are presented showing that such campaigns have a potential to extract scientific result related to the meteor showers mainly due to the large number of the data collected by unskilled observers.
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