[meteorite-list] Lyrid meteors?

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:40:43 -0600
Message-ID: <4F95BE4B.9030507_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

Didn't see any, but my camera caught quite a few, including some nice
fireballs.

http://www.cloudbait.com/science/lyrid2012.html

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 4/23/2012 2:33 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
> Wondering if anyone else saw any Lyrid meteors over the weekend.
> I was out at a dark-sky star party Friday night, about 90 miles north of
> L.A., and saw an amazingly long-lasting meteor around 9:30pm slowly
> streak across the northern sky, from east to west. It traveled parallel
> to the horizon, between the Big and Little Dippers, emanating from
> around Bootes and finally terminating in Auriga. Almost as bright as
> Venus, it must have lasted 6-8 seconds and covered 100-120 degrees of
> sky. It began to produce a long, green ion trail after about 1 second of
> incandescence. Truly incredible. I was surprised no one else in my group
> saw it. Perhaps if I had yelled out "meteor!... north!", instead of just
> "wow... wow... wow...". ;^)
> Around 2:00am there was another impressive one, though definitely not a
> Lyrid. It was at least as bright as Venus, but only lasted a second or
> two. It was falling from Corvis, and fragmented into multiple pieces
> which fell away still glowing. Nice.
> Sky conditions were very good - seeing, as well as transparency. I
> suspect Saturday night was even better, since we had a layer of fog over
> the city.
> Linton
Received on Mon 23 Apr 2012 04:40:43 PM PDT