- The
October Draconids, in the past also
unofficially known as the
Giacobinids, are a
Northern hemisphere meteor shower whose parent body is the periodic...
- al-tinnīn ('the head of the dragon'). The
October Draconids, also
called Giacobinids, is a
meteor shower ****ociated with the
periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner...
-
number of comets,
including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent body of the
Giacobinids meteor shower), 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini. The...
- that made it as
bright as 5th magnitude. It is the
parent body of the
Giacobinids meteor shower (also
known as the Draconids). The
comet currently has...
- 1946, when on the
night of
October 9/10 a
spectacular shower of the
Giacobinids (October Draconids)
provided many
important photographic spectra. He...
-
materials available for
study in
laboratories on Earth. In 1946
during the
Giacobinid meteor shower,
Helmut Landsberg collected several small magnetic particles...
- JSTOR 41140365. "78 – Work on
meteors at
Jodrell Bank:
observing the
Giacobinid meteor shower of 1946". Webofstories.com.
Retrieved 9
January 2011. Bernard...
-
telescope observed ionisation in the
atmosphere caused by
meteors in the
Giacobinids meteor shower. When the
antenna was
turned by 90
degrees at the maximum...
-
Comet Giacobini-Zinner. A
greater number of
meteors (referred to as
Giacobinids or Draconids)
burned up in the
atmosphere than
usual because of a closer...
- to
observe eclipses,
comet Ikeya-Seki,
planetary IR observations, and
Giacobinid meteor showers.
Planetary scientist Gerard P.
Kuiper performed a series...
