Thanks for the help!
If I'm understanding what you say here correctly I think it answers most of the questions I had. The filament cloud is orbiting the sun along the same path as the comet. Therefore, as you said, the segment of the stream the Earth passed through the year before is either...
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My question is regarding meteor showers and what mechanisms...