meteor shower associated with Comet P/2006 T1 (Levy)

A thread on Astrosurf Forum raised the idea that a new trail of debris
laid by Comet P/2006 T1 (Levy) will be encountered on December 31. The
British Astronomical Association has reported the proposal but nothing
else has been heard about this new shower. There is no word on where
the radiant is. From the published orbital elements, Node is at:
degres 279.80536 (2000.0) and argument of perihelion is at: degres
179.45006 .
What additional info have you come across?
On the same subject, what is the best tool to present graphical orbit
display from the orbital elements?

Pierre MK-UK

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Pierre writes
A thread on Astrosurf Forum raised the idea that a new trail of debris
laid by Comet P/2006 T1 (Levy) will be encountered on December 31. The
British Astronomical Association has reported the proposal but nothing
else has been heard about this new shower. There is no word on where
the radiant is. From the published orbital elements, Node is at:
degres 279.80536 (2000.0) and argument of perihelion is at: degres
179.45006 .
What additional info have you come across?

Hello Pierre,

The subject has also been discussed in the meteorobs mailing list in
October 2006. See the following link for a list of threads, including
the Comet Levy ones.

http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail...er/thread.html

Dr Marco Langbroek of the Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) posted to meteorobs
that, 'The theoretic radiant (based on orbital elements from MPEC
2006-U32, 20 Oct) is at RA 328.5 (21h54m), dec. +56.6, which is in
Cepheus. Very slow meteors, Vgeo 13.9 km/s'.


On the same subject, what is the best tool to present graphical orbit
display from the orbital elements?

I've used orbitviewer and it's relatively easy to use. It helps if you
know java, but you can run it and pass in orbital parameters without..

http://www.astroarts.co.jp/products/...wer/index.html
--
David Entwistle

David Entwistle wrote:
Hello Pierre,

The subject has also been discussed in the meteorobs mailing list in
October 2006. See the following link for a list of threads, including
the Comet Levy ones.

http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail...er/thread.html

Dr Marco Langbroek of the Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) posted to meteorobs
that, 'The theoretic radiant (based on orbital elements from MPEC
2006-U32, 20 Oct) is at RA 328.5 (21h54m), dec. +56.6, which is in
Cepheus. Very slow meteors, Vgeo 13.9 km/s'.


On the same subject, what is the best tool to present graphical orbit
display from the orbital elements?

I've used orbitviewer and it's relatively easy to use. It helps if you
know java, but you can run it and pass in orbital parameters without..

http://www.astroarts.co.jp/products/...wer/index.html
--
David Entwistle

Thanks for the additional info. Somehow, Cepheids does not ring true
for a meteor shower but I could get used to it if it yields to
forecasts. The Moon would be in the way for part of the night and the
weather.... Well, let's wait and see.

Pierre MK-UK