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A fine structure of the Perseid stream in the range of photographic magnitudes is studied using the method of indices. A new completed 2003 version of the IAU Meteor Data Center Catalogue of 4581 photographic orbits is used. The method of indices is used to acquire a basic data set for the Perseids. Subsequently, the method is applied on the chosen Perseids to study their structure. Sixty four percent of chosen Perseids taken into account are attached to one of the 17 determined filaments of orbits. The filaments are not distributed in the space accidentally, but they form a higher structure consisting of at least four well-defined and distinguished “branches”.
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Svoreň, J., Neslušan, L., Kaňuchová, Z. et al. A Fine Structure of the Perseid Meteoroid Stream. Earth Moon Planet 95, 69–74 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-005-2875-5
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