Boötid

noun

A meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate from Boötes.

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Meanings

nounBoötid (plural Boötids)

plural Boötids · alternative Bootid

  1. astronomyA meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate from Boötes.

    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.

    2023 October 30, Martin Beech, William Frederick Denning: Grand Amateur and Doyen of British Meteor Astronomy, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 101

Origin

From Boöt(es) + -id.

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