The pi Puppids are a meteor shower associated with the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The meteoroid streams approach the Sun at around 37 km/s and have to...
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to about May 20 each year with peak activity on or around May 6. The Pi Puppids appear on April 23, but only in years around the parent comet's perihelion...
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Meteor showers Alpha Carinids Gamma Velids Delta Velids Zeta Puppids Eta Carinids Pi Puppids Puppid-Velids Bordering constellations Antlia Canis Major Centaurus...
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Puppis, and the near NGC 2477 is a good target for small telescopes. The star Pi Puppis is the main component of a bright group of stars known as Collinder...
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Apr – 30 Apr 22 Apr 32.32 18.1 +34 49 18 bright C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) Pi Puppids 15 Apr – 28 Apr 23 Apr 33.5 7.3 −45 18 variable bright 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup...
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also been studied as a possible source. Lyrids late April Comet Thatcher Pi Puppids (periodic) late April Comet 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup Eta Aquariids early May...
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Pons. In 1972 the comet was discovered to produce a meteor shower, the Pi Puppids, and its current orbit makes them peak around April 23, for observers...
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epsilon Perseids Phoenicids (July Phoenicids) Piscis Austrinids Puppids (pi Puppids) Puppid-Velids Quadrantids Scorpiids alpha Scorpiids North omega Scorpiids...
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researchers of the Johnson Space Center in Houston while analyzing the Pi Puppid particle shower of the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The only other known...
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