[meteorite-list] Leonids-Owens Valley California
From: Howard Wu <freewu2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:16 2004 Message-ID: <20021120000413.16755.qmail_at_web9306.mail.yahoo.com> --0-1158671497-1037750653=:16750 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Everyone is telling there Leonids story so I thought I'd add mine: First meteors I ever remember seeing was the 1966 Leonids at Borego Springs when I was 11y. I was camping with my Dad and we just got lucky. For years to come I thought that this is what a typical shower would be like and in later years had to saddly learn otherwise. But I have seen my share of fireballs. It was sure cold last night! Our temperture dipped an extra ten degrees for just the occasion. Last year I was in my backyard but felt if this year I should seek out company. My greatest fear about sleeping in is the chance of hearing next day stories about missing an Apocalypic level event- angels trumpets in the heavens, cows pannicing in the fields, etc., as you never can tell in advance about these things. The Owen's Valley is usually a great place for star observation and the local enthusist had a warming fire a few miles out of town. I had thought about seeking out one of our local hot springs for a 'wet observation' as I did for comet series a couple years back. Only about a dozen souls showed up this year. I was told last year leonids attracted a group about two hundred.TA high altitude haze gave a ring around the moon which was bright enough to read by washing out a but the brightest stars. I couldn't make out any -2 Mag stars. Just the same it was a far showing. A good average showers, a few multiples, nice colors. I would say twenty-fve a minute at the peak which seemed to come around 2:45. But this could have been a temporary clearing of the haze as the ring had vanish at this time. I was lucky to have just gotten O. Richard Norton's encyclopedia (see p.17) which allowed me to egghead off to my friends about the storm. (Arrived in Saturday's mail- Thanks Ron Hartman!) I was able to whip fact about stream 4 and stream 7, 8:5 orbital coupling with the meteroids and Jupiter nicely visible near Leo. About 3:00 most of us deciding it was time for bed. Drove home and caught one last meteor before retiring. Howard Wu --------------------------------- Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs. --0-1158671497-1037750653=:16750 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <P>Everyone is telling there Leonids story so I thought I'd add mine:</P> <P>First meteors I ever remember seeing was the 1966 Leonids at Borego Springs when I was 11y. I was camping with my Dad and we just got lucky. For years to come I thought that this is what a typical shower would be like and in later years had to saddly learn otherwise. But I have seen my share of fireballs.</P> <P>It was sure cold last night! Our temperture dipped an extra ten degrees for just the occasion. Last year I was in my backyard but felt if this year I should seek out company. My greatest fear about sleeping in is the chance of hearing next day stories about missing an Apocalypic level event- angels trumpets in the heavens, cows pannicing in the fields, etc., as you never can tell in advance about these things.</P> <P>The Owen's Valley is usually a great place for star observation and the local enthusist had a warming fire a few miles out of town. I had thought about seeking out one of our local hot springs for a 'wet observation' as I did for comet series a couple years back. Only about a dozen souls showed up this year. I was told last year leonids attracted a group about two hundred.TA high altitude haze gave a ring around the moon which was bright enough to read by washing out a but the brightest stars. I couldn't make out any -2 Mag stars. Just the same it was a far showing. A good average showers, a few multiples, nice colors. I would say twenty-fve a minute at the peak which seemed to come around 2:45. But this could have been a temporary clearing of the haze as the ring had vanish at this time.</P> <P>I was lucky to have just gotten O. Richard Norton's encyclopedia (see p.17) which allowed me to egghead off to my friends about the storm. (Arrived in Saturday's mail- Thanks Ron Hartman!) I was able to whip fact about stream 4 and stream 7, 8:5 orbital coupling with the meteroids and Jupiter nicely visible near Leo. About 3:00 most of us deciding it was time for bed. Drove home and caught one last meteor before retiring.</P> <P>Howard Wu</P><p><p><br><hr size=1><a href="http://uk.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_xtra/?http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail_storage.html"><b><font face="Arial" size="2">Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs.</font></b></a><br> --0-1158671497-1037750653=:16750-- Received on Tue 19 Nov 2002 07:04:13 PM PST |
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