[meteorite-list] Re: Green Glow Over North Carolina Could Have Been Meteor Shower

From: Bob Martino <martino.6_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:35 2004
Message-ID: <04d701c399c5$41d76cb0$0300000a_at_TheMonolith>

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.

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Bob Martino, Tucson, AZ

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> From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl>
> To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> 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)
>
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> Dr Marco Langbroek
> Leiden, the Netherlands
> 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)
>
> meteorites_at_dmsweb.org
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek
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Received on Thu 23 Oct 2003 08:24:53 PM PDT