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Table 2:

Densities and porosities of meteoroids.
Meteor	Parent	$\delta _{\rm m}$ , g cm^-3	$N_{\rm m}$	$\delta _{\rm m}$ , g cm^-3	$N_{\rm m}$	$\delta$ , g cm^-3	$N_{\rm b}$	p,
stream	body	Benyuch (1974)		This work		This work		$\%$
Draconids	21P/Giacobini-Zinner	1.8	175	-	-	0.3^**	-	83
Leonids	55P/Tempel-Tutlle	-	-	$2.3\pm 0.2$	10	$0.4\pm 0.1$	6	83
Orionids	1P/Halley	-	-	$2.4\pm 0.2$	6	$0.9\pm 0.5$	2	62
Perseids	109P/Swift-Tutlle	2.4	309	$2.25\pm 0.04$	191	$1.2\pm 0.2$	97	45
Taurids	2P/Encke	2.7	63	$2.7\pm 0.2$	12	$1.6\pm 0.4$	6	41
Quadrantids	2003EH1 and 96P/Machholz1	3.4	20	$3.4\pm 0.8$	4	$1.9\pm 0.2$	3	44
$\alpha$ -Capricornids	2003EX12 = 169P/NEAT	2.8	34	$3.4\pm 0.8$	5	2.1	1	38
$\kappa$ -Cygnids	2008ED69?	-	-	$2.5\pm 0.1$	2	$2.2\pm 1.7$	2	12
$\delta$ -Aquarids	2003EH1 and 96P/Machholz1	4.1	36	$3.4\pm 0.4$	13	$2.4\pm 0.6$	8	29
Geminids	3200 Phaethon	3.3	118	$2.9\pm 0.2$	20	$2.9\pm 0.6$	8	0
Sporadic		2.7	2267	$3.0\pm 0.1$	238	$1.8\pm 0.3$	103	40

^** The value of the bulk density is taken from Borovicka et al. (2007).

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