Dust trails created by comet 209P/LINEAR
Trail encounter parameters when Earth reaches stream in 2014

UT - Universal Time unadjusted for topocentric correction
Revs - number of orbits of dust from ejection to 2014
Ep - ejection epoch (year)
Da0 - difference between semi-major axis (a0) of the comet and the particle at ejection. Da0~0.0 => large particles
rE-rD - distance of the dust trail node from Earth's orbit (Earth radius=0.00004AU) (Impact radius=0.00005AU) (trail widths can easily be a few Earth diameters, depending on ejection velocities)
fM - estimate of the along-trail dispersion. For a 1-rev trail, fM= 1.0 but for an unperturbed n-rev trail, fM= 1/n. Negative values indicate that the trail has bent backwards on itself.

Year Mo Da	UT	Revs	Ep	Da0	rE-rD	fM
2014 05 24	06:06	1	2009	-0.004	-0.00268	1.089
2014 05 24	06:05	2	2004	-0.002	-0.00283	0.505
2014 05 24	06:05	3	1999	-0.001	-0.00288	0.336
2014 05 24	06:05	4	1994	-0.001	-0.00293	0.256
2014 05 24	06:03	5	1989	-0.001	-0.00297	0.210
2014 05 24	06:05	6	1984	-0.001	-0.00301	0.184
2014 05 24	06:05	7	1979	-0.001	-0.00306	0.167
2014 05 24	06:03	8	1974	-0.001	-0.00312	0.157
2014 05 24	05:58	9	1969	0.000	-0.00316	0.139
Year Mo Da	UT	Revs	Ep	Da0	rE-rD	fM
2014 05 24	05:52	10	1964	0.000	-0.00319	0.127
2014 05 24	05:48	11	1959	0.000	-0.00323	0.117
2014 05 24	05:45	12	1954	0.000	-0.00326	0.111
2014 05 24	05:42	13	1949	0.000	-0.00336	0.124
2014 05 24	05:39	14	1944	-0.001	-0.00349	0.143
2014 05 24	05:35	15	1939	-0.001	-0.00369	0.174
2014 05 24	05:23	16	1934	-0.001	-0.00410	0.232
2014 05 24	04:56	17	1929	-0.001	-0.00502	0.384
2014 05 24	02:58	18	1924	-0.004	-0.00903	0.673
2014 05 24	09:57	19	1919	0.006	0.00735	-0.286
Year Mo Da	UT	Revs	Ep	Da0	rE-rD	fM
2014 05 24	08:00	20	1914	0.002	0.00202	-0.229
2014 05 24	07:24	21	1909	0.001	0.00061	-0.149
2014 05 24	07:09	22	1903	0.001	0.00005	-0.113
2014 05 24	07:01	23	1898	0.001	-0.00025	-0.095
2014 05 24	06:55	24	1893	0.001	-0.00044	-0.082
2014 05 24	06:52	25	1888	0.000	-0.00057	-0.074
2014 05 24	06:48	26	1883	0.000	-0.00067	-0.067
2014 05 24	06:45	27	1878	0.000	-0.00079	-0.050
2014 05 24	06:42	28	1873	0.000	-0.00086	-0.040
2014 05 24	06:39	29	1868	0.000	-0.00090	-0.033
Year Mo Da	UT	Revs	Ep	Da0	rE-rD	fM
2014 05 24	06:38	30	1863	0.000	-0.00093	-0.029
2014 05 24	06:37	31	1858	0.000	-0.00095	-0.026
2014 05 24	06:37	32	1853	0.000	-0.00096	-0.020
2014 05 24	06:35	33	1848	0.000	-0.00097	-0.021
2014 05 24	06:34	34	1843	0.000	-0.00097	-0.022
2014 05 24	06:34	35	1838	0.000	-0.00099	-.---
2014 05 24	06:34	36	1833	0.000	-0.00100	-.---
2014 05 24	06:34	37	1828	0.000	-0.00101	-.---
2014 05 24	06:34	38	1823	0.000	-0.00102	-.---
2014 05 24	06:34	39	1818	0.000	-0.00102	-.---
Year Mo Da	UT	Revs	Ep	Da0	rE-rD	fM
2014 05 24	06:34	40	1813	0.000	-0.00101	-.---
2014 05 24	06:34	41	1808	0.000	-0.00101	-.---
2014 05 24	06:38	42	1803	0.000	-0.00099	-0.017
2014 05 24	06:37	43	1798	0.000	-0.00096	-0.023
2014 05 24	06:39	44	1793	0.000	-0.00091	-0.031
2014 05 24	06:47	45	1788	0.000	-0.00078	-0.054
2014 05 24	07:14	46	1783	0.001	-0.00043	-0.116
2014 05 24	07:47	47	1778	0.001	0.00001	-0.047
2014 05 24	08:02	48	1773	0.001	0.00019	-.---
2014 05 24	08:09	49	1768	0.001	0.00030	-.---
2014 05 24	08:14	50	1763	0.001	0.00038	-.---
2014 05 24	08:19	51	1758	0.001	0.00046	-.---
2014 05 24	08:22	52	1753	0.001	0.00054	-.---

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Last Revised: 2014 May 22nd