Monday, Sep 09, 2024

In the early morning of September 4, there was a brief meteor shower outburst visible over California and Arizona with a radiant in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was recorded by low-light video cameras in the CAMS networks led by Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Nick Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory). The outburst revealed a weak annual shower that had not been mapped before, with a possible earlier outburst in 2014. The shower was caused by the crumbs of a yet-to-be discovered comet in a high-inclined orbit.

The announcement came out on September 8, 2924:

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005400/CBET005442.txt

The follow-up paper is posted here:
https://www.emeteornews.net/2024/09/08/2024-outburst-of-september-psi-cassiopeiids/

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