Hi Linton, Nice report. It makes me want to go out with the scope rig more often. I don't get to observe very often now, but several years ago I had a great run of seeing bolides. But this was before I was introduced to meteorites, so I didn't make the realization that those same bolides could be dropping stones. Since learning about meteorites, I'd see a bolide and then imagine where it will fall and what it's history was before it landed here.
I haven't seen any good ones in a long time. If I go out with the purpose of observing a bolide, I never spot any. But I had a great run a few years back. This was around summer of 2008, and I saw more bolides in a span of ~3 months than I usually see in the average year or two. I'd make notes, but never really documented any useful information about them. Any future meaningful bolide observations I make will be posted here also, in the hopes that maybe someone can find some meteorites. Best regards and clear dark skies, MikeG -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Galactic Stone & Ironworks - MikeG Web: http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter: http://twitter.com/GalacticStone RSS: http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 ----------------------------------------------------------- On 4/23/12, Linton Rohr <[email protected]> wrote: > Wondering if anyone else saw any Lyrid meteors over the weekend. > I was out at a dark-sky star party Friday night, about 90 miles north of > L.A., and saw an amazingly long-lasting meteor around 9:30pm slowly streak > across the northern sky, from east to west. It traveled parallel to the > horizon, between the Big and Little Dippers, emanating from around Bootes > and finally terminating in Auriga. Almost as bright as Venus, it must have > lasted 6-8 seconds and covered 100-120 degrees of sky. It began to produce a > long, green ion trail after about 1 second of incandescence. Truly > incredible. I was surprised no one else in my group saw it. Perhaps if I had > yelled out "meteor!... north!", instead of just "wow... wow... wow...". ;^) > Around 2:00am there was another impressive one, though definitely not a > Lyrid. It was at least as bright as Venus, but only lasted a second or two. > It was falling from Corvis, and fragmented into multiple pieces which fell > away still glowing. Nice. > Sky conditions were very good - seeing, as well as transparency. I suspect > Saturday night was even better, since we had a layer of fog over the city. > Linton ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
