Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.
I was quite amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor storm was brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors... I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more... I think the meteor timing of what you saw were nothing more than a coincidence. Sometimes this happens. GeoZay Steve, George: This kind of thing can happen, I think, on rare occasions when a fragile meteoroid fragments just before it plunges into the atmosphere (or rather: at very high altitude in the atmosphere) and becomes a luminous meteor. Back on 14 October 1993 I witnessed something very similar: 3 separate meteors, with clearly different directions but all intersecting back to the same radiant in Pegasus, that appeared within 1-2 seconds of each other. Not a single one from that radiant before or after that. - Marco - Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: d...@marcolangbroek.nl http://www.dmsweb.org http://www.marcolangbroek.nl - __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst
Hello Steve and List, The only meteor sightings I could find in my Sky Telescope back issues for September do not fit the information you have provided...unfortunately. Here is what I found in the September 1981 issue, p. 236: New meteor shower. Last year, P. MacKinnon and R.A. Keen of Boulder, Colorado, announced a possible new meteor shower from the direction of southern Lyra or Cygnus. Despite fairly poor sky conditions, on September 16th, 17th, and 18th G. Kiladis had noticed that about 15 or 20 meteors per hour seemed to be aligned with a radiant near right ascension 19.0h, declin- ation +25°. A good number of them were of magnitude 2 or brighter. A few weeks later, MacKinnon and Keen themselves noted a similar hourly rate for a radiant at about declination +32°, near right ascension 20.3h (October 1st) and 21.2h (October 5th and 6th). Because a meteor shower radiant is a perspective effect, it is usual for the direction to shift eastward during the several weeks it takes the Earth to pass through a meteor stream. Therefore, it is possible that these observers witnessed a hitherto undetected meteor stream. Opposing this view, however, are P. Roggemans and several other Belgian observers, who did not find any meteors associated with a radiant in this part of the sky for the same range of dates. These conflicting reports appeared late in 1980, in IAU Circulars 3528, 3542, and 3545. --- Cheers, Bernd __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.
Last night, at about 1 AM here in Flagstaff, I was going from my rental to my house and I saw a flash on the horizon. There were no clouds, and the sky was perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was. I looked up into the sky, and then I saw three bright meteors, one after the other over the span of 2 seconds. They were as bright as Jupiter, which was high up, mid transit in the sky. Blue white in color they left no persistent train and were very fast, lasting maybe 1/2 th second duration, traveling 10 to 15 degrees each. I was quite amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor storm was brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors... I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more... Anyone else see something like that last night? Steve Schoner http://www.petroslides.com IMCA #4470 Mortgage Rates Hit 3.25% If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3341/4c8a6ee4d0bdcac464fst04duc __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.
Hi Steve... Last night, at about 1 AM here in Flagstaff, I was going from my rental to my house and I saw a flash on the horizon. There were no clouds, and the sky was perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was. I looked up into the sky, and then I saw three bright meteors, one after the other over the span of 2 seconds. Just hunching here...but if there was a meteoric flash on the horizon, that would mean it was very far away...maybe about 250 to 400 miles away? Then as you looked up you saw 3 bright meteors overhead. I'm assuming that the 3 meteors were coming from the same direction to each other. Were they in alignment with where the flash was? It would seem to me that where the flash making meteor entered the atmosphere, it would be at a different plane to the earth than the 3 other meteors. I would think that they weren't related because of this at least. They were as bright as Jupiter, which was high up, mid transit in the sky. Blue white in color they left no persistent train and were very fast, lasting maybe 1/2 th second duration, traveling 10 to 15 degrees each. Because the 3 meteors were very fast, I'd think they were of cometary material. I was quite amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor storm was brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors... I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more... I think the meteor timing of what you saw were nothing more than a coincidence. Sometimes this happens. GeoZay __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.
Three meteors came from the same direction, in a 10 degree radiant from the Seven Sisters star cloud. The flash that I caught from the corner of my eye was closer to the horizon, so I did not notice a streak or persistent trail. None of the meteors I saw last night had persistent trails. Just a very bright blue white streak. Interesting to see such a flurry, Makes me wonder if there is a potentially big cometary meteor stream headed our way. Any meteor showers for Aug 8th? Steve Message: 12 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:48:01 EDT From: geo...@aol.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst. To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Message-ID: 64517.1e1e0a7b.39bbd...@aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Steve... Last night, at about 1 AM here in Flagstaff, I was going from my rental to my house and I saw a flash on the horizon. There were no clouds, and the sky was perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was. I looked up into the sky, and then I saw three bright meteors, one after the other over the span of 2 seconds. Just hunching here...but if there was a meteoric flash on the horizon, that would mean it was very far away...maybe about 250 to 400 miles away? Then as you looked up you saw 3 bright meteors overhead. I'm assuming that the 3 meteors were coming from the same direction to each other. Were they in alignment with where the flash was? It would seem to me that where the flash making meteor entered the atmosphere, it would be at a different plane to the earth than the 3 other meteors. I would think that they weren't related because of this at least. They were as bright as Jupiter, which was high up, mid transit in the sky. Blue white in color they left no persistent train and were very fast, lasting maybe 1/2 th second duration, traveling 10 to 15 degrees each. Because the 3 meteors were very fast, I'd think they were of cometary material. I was quite amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor storm was brewing. The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors... I stayed out for another half hour hoping... But nothing more... I think the meteor timing of what you saw were nothing more than a coincidence. Sometimes this happens. GeoZay EXPOSED: Make $99/hr Online BREAKING NEWS: People are beating the recession by working at home. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3341/4c8afce14609aaef4dfst05duc __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
