[meteorite-list] 2007 Perseids

From: Mark <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:44:18 -0700
Message-ID: <000e01c7dd32$5194ad70$800101df_at_dce05032006>

Well from the good ole US of A this morning 30 minutes north of Phoenix AZ I
sat on Lake Pleasant at 02:00 and watched approximately 10-20 streaks a
minute until sunrise at 06:00. Some really nice meteors, some breaking into
two before burning out. I am sure if we were a little farther from the city
lights we would have seen more. Trouble is 5 years ago the urban sprawl we
now call a city was 20 miles south and not polluting the skies so bad.

It was a wonderful clear night, air temp 84, water temp 86.6, largemouth and
striped bass were cooperative and completed the morning by stretching our
lines. All in all not a bad morning watching the Perseids and fishing.

Mark M.
Phoenix AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] 2007 Perseids


> Hello All,
>
> After I had seen my first Perseid, I got mail from Alex (Alex I will get
> back to you
> tomorrow!) and he was not quite sure if I had really seen a Perseid. Well,
> it might
> have been a "spoardic meteor" but I have just checked back on one of my
> star
> charts. That "bright, thick, orange streak" went right through the
> "keystone" of the
> constellation Hercules, and, tracing back this flight path on my star
> chart leads me
> right to the constellation Perseus!
>
> In other words, I should have written NE > SW instead of N > S! Mea culpa!
> Anyway, what was much more perplexing , was (a) the color of the meteor,
> (b)
> its thick streak, and (c) its relatively low speed!
>
> Let's wait for the reports of the more experienced observers (Bob Verish,
> and
> others) as their observations may throw more competent light on what this
> year's
> Perseids are like!
>
> Perseidically yours,
>
> Bernd
>
> P.S: Weather conditions are deteriorating, hazy skies,
> seeing mediocre, a lot of humidity in the air now :-(
>
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