Aurigids
Sign in to saveAurigids is a meteor shower occurring primarily within September.
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It sits within the topics Meteor showers and September.
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Key facts
- Meteor shower.name
- Aurigids
- Meteor shower.image
- Auriga constellation map.svg
- Meteor shower.caption
- Celestial map of Auriga
- Meteor shower.parent
- Kiess (C/1911 N1)
- Meteor shower.constellation
- Auriga
- Meteor shower.month
- August 26 to September 5
- Meteor shower.peak
- September 1
- Meteor shower.velocity
- 65
- Meteor shower.zhr
- 6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- meteor shower
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Speed
- 66
- Has parts of class
- zenithal hourly rate
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1935-08-31
- discoverer or inventor
- Cuno Hoffmeister
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- September 10
- declination
- 39
- right ascension
- 92
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Encyclopedic overview
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Aurigids is a meteor shower occurring primarily within September.
The comet Kiess (C/1911 N1) whose orbital period is approximately 2000 to 2100 years, is the source of the material that causes the meteors.
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