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f i i Collected Reminiscences of John Frederick Heard 129 a relatively restricted zone. He further calculated that if the orbit of the parent satellite had had eccentricity of about 0.02 and if the disruption had occurred at perigee on the next earlier passage to the one observed. then the daughter bodies. with eccentricities between 0 and 0.02. would have been spread out at perigee on the observed passage by about 3 minutes. of. time, as observed. O'Keefe has given the name Cyrillids to these...