Ecliptical meteor shower

As ekliptikal a is meteor referred whose particles ( meteoroids ) none of the known comets can be assigned, but in the course of the centuries near the earth's orbit plane - the ecliptic have scattered -.

As a result, the shooting stars are distributed over a longer period of time, which can be up to several months. The daily number of meteors is low, the maximum is rather flat. Some examples are the Virginids (March to May), the July Aquariids (July / August) or the Taurids (September to December).

The ecliptical type also includes swarms of shooting stars, of which the original comet is suspected, but which also contain small material from ecliptic asteroids .