CAMS newly detected meteor showers and the sporadic background
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A 2.5-year video surveillance of the night sky in the San Francisco Bay Area, called CAMS, has detected 60 newly identified showers. This brings the total CAMS tally so far to 230 detected meteor showers and shower components, 70 established showers, 81 confirmed showers, 86 newly detected showers, and 19 newly identified shower components.

26% of all observed meteors were assigned to showers, but after fitting a power law to the size frequency distribution of showers (i.e., the number of members) and, by extrapolating to the single-member showers, at least 36% of meteors belong to showers.

The mass influx to Earth from meteor streams is dominated by showers on Jupiter-family type orbits.

After removing the showers, the remaining sporadic background shows a Poynting–Robertson evolved population that dominates the mass influx to Earth. This implies that collisional lifetimes for 7-mm particles are a factor of ∼10 longer than previously assumed. 25% of mass influx is from a younger population on Jupiter-family type orbits, which fades on a short ∼104-year timescale by meteoroid disruptions caused by processes other than collisions.

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