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| DMSPRC98.xls.zip Photographic orbital elements (Excel 97 - 183 kB) |
| DMSPRC98.mdb.zip Photographic orbital elements (Access 97 - 175 kB) |
| DMSVID98.TXT Video orbital elements (Text - 117 kB) |
| DMSVID98.XLS Video orbital elements (Excel 97 - 431 kB) |
Between 1979 and 1998 more than 1800 meteors have been photographed by
two or more stations of the small camera network of the Dutch Meteor Society. Most
multi station events were photographed in the Netherlands but also many orbital and
trajectory data were gathered at expeditions abroad. Data from the Californian network
(from 1994 onwards) are also reduced by the Dutch Meteor Society and the results are
included in the database.
Out of all multi station events 985 meteors yielded orbital data. The 1998 version of
the DMS photographic database consists of all photographic orbits obtained from the
early beginning of the Dutch Meteor Society in the seventies until and including 1998.
| DMSPRC98.xls.zip | DMSPRC98.mdb.zip |
| (Excel 97 - 183 kB) | (Access 97 - 175 kB) |
Both files can be downloaded as .zip files.
For information, comments and other formats please contact:
Hans Betlem at photo@dmsweb.org
The DMS video database contains now orbital and trajectory data of 563 video multistation meteors, photographed by the Dutch Meteor Society up til 1998. Orbital data of the 1995 Quadrantids, the 1995 Leonids and alpha Monocerotids and the 1993-1998 Perseid (outbursts) streams have been published in several journals. See the DMS publications list, abstract service and full papers on the DMS web site and DMS ftp site. Now the full table of video data 1972-1998 is available in Microsoft Access Database format (.mdb for version 97) and in Microsoft Excel format (version 97) on the DMS ftp site.
| DMSVID98.TXT | DMSVID98.XLS |
| (Text - 117 kB) | (Excel 97 - 431 kB) |
Hans Betlem at photo@dmsweb.org or
Marc de Lignie at video@dmsweb.org
- Betlem, H. et. al. DMS photographic meteor database. Leiden, 1995.
- Lindblad, B.A., 1987, in (eds.) Z. Ceplecha and P. Pecina, Interplanetary Matter, Proc. 10th European Reg. Meeting of the IAU, vol. 2, Praghe, pp. 201-204
- Lindblad, B.A., 1991, in (eds.) A.C. Levasseur-Regourd and H. Hasegawa, Origin and Evolution of Interplanetary Dust, Kluwer Adad. Publishers, pp. 311-314
| CODE | ###### | DMS filing code |
|---|---|---|
| YEAR | #### | |
| MONTH | ## | |
| DAY | ##.#### | Decimal date |
| N | ## | Number of available photographs |
| STREAM | ##### | Shower identification |
| Mv | ## | Estimated visual magnitude |
| q | #.### | perihelion distance [AU] |
| tol q | #.### | standard deviation in q [AU] |
| Q | #####.### | aphelion distance Q [AU] |
| a | ###.### | semi major axis [AU] |
| 1/a | #.### | Inverse semi majox axis [1/AU] |
| tol 1/a | #.### | standard deviation in 1/a [1/AU] |
| e | #.### | excentricity of the orbit |
| tol e | #.### | standard deviation in excentricity |
| i | ###.## | inclination (J2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol i | #.## | standard deviation in i [degrees] |
| omega | ###.## | perihelion lenght (J2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol omega | ##.## | standard deviation in omega [degrees] |
| node | ###.#### | node (J2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol node | #.#### | standard deviation node [degrees] |
| pi | ###.## | pi (J2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol pi | ##.## | standard deviation pi [degrees] |
| Vg | ##.## | Geocentric velocity [km/s] |
| Vh | ##.## | Heliocentric velocity [km/s] |
| V inf | ##.## | V inf [km/s] |
| V | ##.## | V mean [km/s] |
| tol V | #.# | standard deviation in V inf [km/s] |
| H beg. | ###.# | Height of beginning [km] |
| H max. | ###.# | Height of maximum light [km] |
| H end | ###.# | Terminal height [km] |
| RA | ###.## | RA observed radiant (2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol RA | #.## | standard deviation in RA [degrees] (only given when N>2) |
| DEC | ##.## | DECL observed radiant (2000.0) [degrees] |
| tol DEC | #.## | standard deviation in DEC [degrees] (only given when N>2) |
| RA Geo | ###.## | RA Geocentric radiant (2000.0) [degrees] |
| DEC Geo | ##.## | DECL geocentric radiant (2000.0) [degrees] |
| COSZR | #.## | Cos zenit distance of the radiant. |
| Q max | ##.# | maximum Q angle between the meteor trails on the meteor images |
Photographic and video databases
at the DMS FTP-site
