Sorry, but this isn't correct. One can indeed see meteors from a shower when the radiant is below the horizon. Meteors do not cluster at the radiant point, but rather appear all over the sky.
----- Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ Can you really name a star? Read the Truth! http://home.columbus.rr.com/starfaq/ . > From: "Marco Langbroek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "meteorite list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:04:50 +0200 > Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Green Glow Over North Carolina Could Have Been Meteor Shower > > Orionids at 8:45 pm??? No way! The radiant is far below the horizon then. > > This was either a sporadic, or perhaps a Taurid fireball. In the latter > case, this would be a piece of debris from comet Encke, not Halley. > > Marco Langbroek > Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) > > ------ > Dr Marco Langbroek > Leiden, the Netherlands > 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > ------ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
