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City student recorded meteors a week before Orissa incident Press Trust of India October 7, 2003 Mumbia - A city based amateur astronomer had observed and photographed a huge fire ball-- the meteorites of the same origin as those hit Orissa villages on the evening of September 27, from suburban Mulund in south Mumbai, exactly a week before. Rahul Patil, who also made an important observation that the meteor shower was associated with "Aquarid" (originated from the constellation Aquarius) meteor shower, had sent the observations to Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai and the International Meteor Organisation, Germany. Confirming the claim, Solar Astronomer of Nehru Planetarium and Vice-President of Mumbai Amateur Astronomer's Association, Bharat Adur said "Strangely, no planetaria and none of the leading institutes doing research in astronomy in the country were found to be studying this meteor shower". Patil said the cosmic shower was not yet over as there were 534 near-earth meteors in the sky currently, of which 30 asteroids were passing very close to earth from September 11 to November 16, 2003. "Another strike is expected anytime but where and when depends on the keen observers", he told PTI. They are going to be very close to the earth to the tune of 0.0228 Astronomical Units (one AU= 150 km), the distance less than that of moon from the earth, Patil said. Patil said that on September 19, a week before the actual strike in Orissa, he had observed one of the "bolide" (exploding) meteor moving from south to west at 8.20 pm and a second one moving from southeast to west at 8.47 pm. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
