Pi Puppids

The Pi Puppiden are a meteor shower of the southern sky and is from Central Europe can not be observed. The radiant is in the constellation Puppis.

The activity of the Pi - Puppiden is usually very low. But increased meteor rates were observed in the past, including in 1977 and 1982, when the ZHR for a short time was 40 meteors per hour. In these years, the mother body 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup was at perihelion, which was still at that time within the Earth's orbit. Meanwhile, the planet Jupiter has directed this comet on a new orbit, so that its perihelion is now located outside the Earth's orbit. Therefore, the activity rates are uncertain on subsequent perihelion passage of the comet.