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English
Etymology
From Boöt(es) + -id.
Noun
Boötid (plural Boötids)
- (astronomy) A meteor of a meteor shower appearing to originate from Boötes.
2023 October 30, Martin Beech, William Frederick Denning: Grand Amateur and Doyen of British Meteor Astronomy, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 101:Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke is recognized as the parent comet to the June Boötid meteor shower-a shower whose radiant location was first identified and described by Denning in June of 1916.