Meteor Cluster Search

Meteor observers have been discussing meteor clusters for quite a long time. Nevertheless there has been no positive proof for this effect so far. Video observation provides very accurate data to decide this question once and forever.

The graph above results from our latest investigation in this area. It shows almost no clustering effect at the Perseid maximum 1993, that was recorded by MOVIE in the Schwarzwald Mountains (Germany). The sequence of meteors follows without doubt the theory for randomly distributed particles in space. Nevertheless there seems to be a minor surplus of meteor pairs with very short distances, which is only prominent in the plot of the relative differences.