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  1. Newsgroups: sci.astro
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!Hail.ATM.Dal.Ca!andromed
  3. From: andromed@Hail.ATM.Dal.Ca (Mike Boschat)
  4. Subject: 1993 Meteor Showers
  5. Message-ID: <BzzwK4.8yw@cs.dal.ca>
  6. Sender: usenet@cs.dal.ca (USENET News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: hail.atm.dal.ca
  8. Organization: ATM, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  9. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:40:52 GMT
  10. Lines: 38
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  12.  
  13.                   METEOR SHOWERS FOR 1993
  14.                   -----------------------
  15. SHOWER                  RA         DEC         PEAK DATE      NO/HR.
  16. =========================================================================
  17. Quadrantids            15h 30m     +50        Jan.3 11h UT    95
  18. Lyrids                 18h 16m     +34        Apr.22 03h      15
  19. Alpha Scorpiids        16h 24m     -25        May 3  18h      10
  20. Eta Aquarids           22h 27m      00        May 4  21h      30
  21. Zeta Perseids          04h 08m     +23        Jun.9  10h      40*
  22. Beta Taurids           05h 44m     +19        Jun.28 07h      25*
  23. Pegasids               22h 40m     +15        Jul.9  08h      8
  24. S.Delta Aquarids       23h 38m     -16        Jul.28 19h      20
  25. Alpha Capricornids     20h 24m     -10        Jul.29 15h      8
  26. N.Delta Aquarids       21h 44m     -05        Aug.12 07h      20
  27. Perseids               03h 56m     +58        Aug.12 15h      95
  28. Alpha Aurigids         05h 44m     +42        Aug.31 20h      10
  29. Orionids               06h 22m     +16        Oct.22 00h      20
  30. S.Taurids              03h 24m     +14        Nov.3  00h      15
  31. N.Taurids              03h 55m     +23        Nov.13 00h      15
  32. Leonids                10h 11m     +22        Nov.17 13h     var
  33. Geminids               07h 30m     +33        Dec.14 00h      90
  34. Ursids                 14h 28m     +75        Dec.23 01h      20
  35. =============================================================================
  36.  
  37. the RA & DEC are for Epoch 2000.0
  38. the * means a daytime shower.
  39.                                         Clear skies
  40.  
  41.                                         Mike Boschat
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  44. |    JOHN F. KENNEDY              | " Our problems are man-made, therefore |
  45. |                                 |  they can be solved by man. "          |
  46. |  ASTRONOMICAL  OBSERVATORY      |                                        |
  47. |                                 |                      J.F.K.            |
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