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From Comets to Meteors

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A summary of comet nucleus and dust properties is used to suggest a basis for predicting the properties of meteor shower particles originating as comet debris.

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  1. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, 2300 RA, The Netherlands

    J. Mayo Greenberg

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  1. NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, 94035-1000, Moffet Field, CA, USA

    Peter Jenniskens  & Mark Fonda  & 

  2. Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 200 Yale Boulevard, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Frans Rietmeijer

  3. The Wise Observatory and the School of Physics and Astronomy, Beverly and Raymond Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, PO Box 39040, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Noah Brosch

  4. SETI Institute, USA

    Peter Jenniskens

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Greenberg, J.M. (2000). From Comets to Meteors. In: Jenniskens, P., Rietmeijer, F., Brosch, N., Fonda, M. (eds) Leonid Storm Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2071-7_24

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