1997
Ref: ASTROimport-32

Quetelet and the Discovery of the First Meteor Showers

Sauval, J.


published in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, 25, pp. 21-33 (1997)

Abstract: The contribution of Adolphe Quetelet to meteor astronomy is important. In 1836 he predicted the return of the Perseids and in 1837 he published the first catalogue of meteors. He was also an independent co-discoverer of the Orionids and the Quadrantids in 1839.

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