Meteor outburst related to asteroid encounter?

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20 years 7 months ago #8764 by tvanflandern
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Astrodelugeologist</i>
<br />The asteroid passed Earth on March 18, and the meteor sightings happened on March 21, only a few days later. Could the two be related? Could the meteors have been satellites of 2004FH that escaped as its sphere of influence got smaller?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I know nothing about the orbit that might have been estimated for the meteor. But it was too far away to be from the asteroid's sphere of influence, which extends out only tens of kilometers. But if the orbits are similar, they could have been from the same meteor stream. -|Tom|-

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