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- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 — Introduction
- Chapter 2 — Evolution of Meteoroids and the Formation of Meteoroid Streams
- Chapter 3 — Observations of the Perseid Meteor Shower
- Chapter 4 — Development and Application of a Numerical Model of the Formation and Evolution of the Perseid Meteoroid Stream
- Chapter 5 — Observational Record of the Leonid Meteor Shower
- Chapter 6 — Simulation of the Formation and Evolution of the Leonid Meteoroid Stream
- Chapter 7 — Conclusions, Summary and Future Work
- Appendix A — Orbital Element Definitions and Orbital Elements of 55P/Tempel-Tuttle and 109P/Swift-Tuttle