Ronald A. McIntosh: pioneer Southern Hemisphere meteor observer

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Orchiston, Wayne, Drummond, John and Luciuk, Michael. 2021. "Ronald A. McIntosh: pioneer Southern Hemisphere meteor observer." Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. 24 (3), pp. 789-817.

Article Title	Ronald A. McIntosh: pioneer Southern Hemisphere meteor observer
ERA Journal ID	30599
Article Category	Article
Authors	Orchiston, Wayne (Author), Drummond, John (Author) and Luciuk, Michael (Author)
Journal Title	Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Journal Citation	24 (3), pp. 789-817
Number of Pages	29
Year	2021
Place of Publication	Thailand
ISSN	1440-2807
Web Address (URL)	https://www.rtu.edu.ph/card/volume-24/
Abstract	The Auckland amateur astronomer Ronald A. McIntosh was New Zealand’s premier meteor researcher from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s and was a leading authority on Southern Hemisphere meteor showers. Using his own visual observations and those contributed by other members of the Meteor Section of the New Zealand Astronomical Society (later the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand) McIntosh was able to write a succession of research papers and reports on various aspects of meteor astronomy. Collectively, these made an important contribution to meteor science in the days before the advent of radar investigations of meteors. In this paper we review McIntosh’s meteor astronomy publications and then summarise the launch of New Zealand radar meteor astronomy immediately after World War II.
Keywords	Ronald A. McIntosh, New Zealand, meteors, meteor showers, radiants, heights, velocities, paths
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	510199. Astronomical sciences not elsewhere classified
Public Notes	Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland
Byline Affiliations	Centre for Astrophysics
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