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A set of geocentric variables suitable for the identification of meteoroid streams has been recently proposed and successfully applied to photographic meteor orbits. We describe these variables and the secular invariance of some of them, and discuss their use to improve the search for meteoroid stream parents.
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Froeschlé, C., Jopek, T. & Valsecchi, G. The Use of Geocentric Variables to Search for Meteroid Streams and their Parents. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 73, 55–64 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008326409243
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