Boötid

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English

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Etymology

From Boöt(es) +‎ -id.

Noun

Boötid (plural Boötids)

  1. (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.