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A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes
Paul Wiegert, Denis Vida, David L. Clark, Auriane Egal, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Weryk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03327

A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes
We report on a pencil-beam survey of the Taurid Swarm, a possible concentration of bodies in the Taurid meteoroid stream associated with the 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope MegaCam observations reaching apparent magnitudes of 24.5 in the gri filter were taken over three nights. Rates of motion on the sky allowed for the quick elimination of main-belt objects from the over 1000 moving sources seen. Eight candidates with on-sky rates of motion consistent wit…