Lyrids and perseids meteoroids: Reconciliation and discrepancy between cometary outgassing theory and electrophonic sound data

摘要

We obtain the diameter of the most massive grains that might be ejected from the nuclear surface of the comets C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) and 109P/Swift-Tuttle using an outgassing model. The prevenient meteoroids of these two comets produce the known Lyrids and Perseids showers and it is thought that they produce electrophonic sounds. We compare our results with the minimum sized of such meteoroids capable of generating such sounds and we reconcile the discrepancy found by Beech in the case of the Lyrids. However, we conclude that the only outgassing mechanism is not compatible with the existence of electrophonic sounds due to Perseid meteoroids, and other mechanisms must be invoked to justify the presence of meter-sized boulders in the Perseid stream.