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We tested four criteria used for discrimination between asteroidal and cometary type of orbits: Whipple criterion K, Kresak criterion Pe, Tisserand invariant T and aphelion distance Q. To estimate their reliability, all criteria were applied to classify the 2225 orbits of NEAs and 582 orbits of comets, for several epochs spanning the time interval of 40 thousands years. The Q-criterion produced the smallest number of exceptions and has shown the best stability. The biggest number of exceptions and the biggest variations are obtained for the K-criterion. We applied the Q-criterion to classify meteor orbits from the IAU Meteor Data Center and the video meteor orbits available on the Web sites. Among the sporadic radar orbits, as well as among the mean orbits of meteor streams a strong preponderance of asteroid-type orbits was observed. In case of the photographic and video meteors a weak preponderance of cometary and asteroidal orbits was found, respectively.
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TJJ work on this paper was partly supported by the KBN Project 2 PO3D 007 22. We like to acknowledge P.A. Dybczyński for helping us with the JPL DE405 ephemeris.
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Starczewski, S., Jopek, T.J. DYNAMICAL RELATION OF METEORIDS TO COMETS AND ASTEROIDS. Earth Moon Planet 95, 41–47 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-005-9027-9
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