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Hydrid en · NOUN

Etymology

From Hydra + -id.

Meanings

1. Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Hydra.
   • a similarly bright meteor at 12ʰ 33ᵐ was probably an α Hydrid 1902, “Section for the Observation of Meteors”, in Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, volume 12, page 10:
   • The radiant analysis that included orbits from the Croatian Meteor Network Catalogues of Orbits 2007 to 2010 plus the orbits from the SonotaCo catalogues for 2007 to 2011 revealed a possible new Hydrid stream with radiant running parallel to, but distinct from, the sigma Hydrids. 2013, D. Šegon et al., “A possible new meteor shower - η Hydrids”, in WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization:

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