[meteorite-list] Re: Green Glow Over North Carolina Could Have Been Meteo...
From: GeoZay_at_aol.com <GeoZay_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:35 2004 Message-ID: <14a.25c09d5a.2cc9cef6_at_aol.com> -------------------------------1066956022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/23/2003 5:22:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, martino.6_at_osu.edu writes: >>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.<< Yes you are right that shower meteors appear all over the sky, but if the radiant itself isn't within about 5 degrees from being on the horizon or above, you won't be seeing any shower members anywhere in the sky. The Orionid radiant rises near 11 pm. If someone said a meteor was an Orionid at 8:45 pm, the radiant would be about 33 degrees below the horizon. Conclusion would be that it wasn't an Orionid in this case. George Zay -------------------------------1066956022 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>In a message dated 10/23/2003 5:22:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, martino= .6_at_osu.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><FONT face=3DArial>>>Sorry, but this isn't correct.<BR>One=20= can indeed see meteors from a shower when the radiant is below the<BR>horizo= n. Meteors do not cluster at the radiant point, but rather appear all<BR>ove= r the sky.<<</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>Yes you are right that shower meteors appear all over the sky, but= if the radiant itself isn't within about 5 degrees from being on the horizo= n or above, you won't be seeing any shower members anywhere in the sky. The=20= Orionid radiant rises near 11 pm. If someone said a meteor was an=20= Orionid at 8:45 pm, the radiant would be about 33 degrees below the horizon.= Conclusion would be that it wasn't an Orionid in this case.</DIV> <DIV>George Zay</DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1066956022-- Received on Thu 23 Oct 2003 08:40:22 PM PDT |
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