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Originally Posted by chrisp9au
I guess I'm wondering what the likelihood is of meteor streams originating from comets like Ikeyi Seki, which first sparked my interests in astronomy back in 1965, or Comet West, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp, or any of the more 'recent' comets?
Cheers 
Chris |
not much, the annual meteor showers tend to come from the trooper short period comets, like temple-tuttle (33 years) Halleys (75 or so years) ect, that go round and round and round the inner solar system, leaving behind a constant substantial trail of debris, whereas some of those you mentioned have huge orbital periods of 1000's of years, and even leave the solar system for a while, some never come back .. and the debri trail follows them out, as still going near same speed/direction as parent, altho perturbed by solar wind ect., they still follow roughly