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Boötid
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English
Alternative forms
en Bootid
Etymology
From en Boötes Boöt(es) -id.
Noun
en astronomy A meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate from Boötes.
en 2023-10-30 Martin Beech William Frederick Denning: Grand Amateur and Doyen of British Meteor Astronomy Springer Nature 9783031444432 101 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke is recognized as the parent comet to the June Boötid meteor shower-a shower whose radiant location was first identified and described by Denning in June of 1916. https://books.google.com/books?id=XlPgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA101&hl=en