Leonid fluxes: 1994-1998 activity patterns

2001

Abstract-The Leonid meteor shower was observed worldwide in 1998 November in an intensive campaign without precedent. During this international effort -35 500 meteors were reported by members and collaborators of the International Meteor Organization (IMO) using a standard methodology. Despite the absence of a meteor storm in 1998, the rich observational data allow us to obtain a detailed unprecedented knowledge of the stream structure between 1994 and 1998. INTRODUCTION We present here the results from long-term visual monitoring by members and collaborators of the International Meteor Organization (IMO) and photographic and charge-coupled device (CCD) monitoring research obtained by membe…