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The κ-Cygnid Meteor Shower and Its Relationship with Near-Earth Asteroids

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This study is focused on the relationships between the κ-Cygnid meteor shower and different groups of asteroids crossing the Earth’s orbit (the so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs)). The analysis is based on the visible structure of the meteor shower and a comprehensive strategy for estimating the proximity of orbits of two bodies. The κ-Cygnid meteor shower (abbreviated as KCG) is observed from August 3 to August 25 every year; it is classified as a minor shower, and the size of its mean orbit is around 3.2 AU, while the geocentric velocity is 20.9 km/s. No parent body (PB) of the shower has been found among comets so far. Relationships between the shower and asteroids, as potential PBs of the shower, are under active examination; some hypotheses on this subject can be found on the website of the Meteor Data Center (MDC) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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  1. http://www.IAUC22DB/MDC2007

  2. http://www.imo.net/data/visual

  3. http://sonotaco.jp/doc/SNM/index.html

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  5. http://cams.seti.org/

  6. https://www.meteornews.net/edmond/edmond/edmond-database/

  7. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi, accessed on April 28, 2019.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to Dr. Sci. (Phys.–Math.) G.I. Kokhirova for her help in preparing this paper.

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The study is supported in part by the Russian Scientific Foundation (project nos. 20-12-00105 and 19-72-00033 for developing the data analysis technique and numerical computations, respectively). The paper was prepared in accordance with the Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University. The study is supported in part by the stipendium of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists (project no. SP-3225.2018.3), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-32-90024), and the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS.”

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    M. V. Sergienko, M. G. Sokolova, Yu. A. Nefedyev & A. O. Andreev

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Sergienko, M.V., Sokolova, M.G., Nefedyev, Y.A. et al. The κ-Cygnid Meteor Shower and Its Relationship with Near-Earth Asteroids. Astron. Rep. 64, 1087–1092 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772920120124

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