Abstract
It has been found that unknown meteor showers could be efficiently discovered from the single station video meteor database of the International Meteor Organization (IMO) by assuming the geocentric velocity and adjusting it within the dynamically permitted range. The mean geocentric velocities of new meteor showers can be obtained, as well as the coordinates of the radiants. The activity period and maximum time can also be obtained if there are sufficient shower meteors. All single station video meteor observations between February 13 and 17 (from 2000 to 2005) in IMO’s database are processed with this method. As a result, two new meteor showers, one near RA=245.10°, Dec=41.82° in Hercules and the other near RA=233.03°, Dec=17.04° in Serpenids, are discovered. Some dynamical characteristics of the new meteor showers are also determined. Considering the random nature on the selection of period in this work, it is expected that there are some more potential new meteor showers in IMO’s video database.
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