HD TV observation of the strong activity of the giacobinid meteor shower in 1998

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1117-1120

  Watanabe, Jun Ichi ^a   Abe, Shinsuke ^a,d   Takanashi, Masaaki ^a,e   Hashimoto, Takema ^a,e   Iiyama, Ohmi ^a,e   Ishibashi, Yukihiro ^b   Morishige, Kazumasa ^b   Yokogawa, Sozo ^c  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Nippon Meteor Society   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; CAMERAS; LENSES; METEORITES; OBSERVATORIES;

HIGH SENSITIVITY;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; METEOR BURST COMMUNICATION;

DODAIRA STATION; GIACOBINID METEOR SHOWER;

METEORITE;

EID: 0033560520     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900195     Document Type: Article

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