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Aurigids is a meteor shower occurring primarily within September.

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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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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aurigids” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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