(meteorobs) blind spots and black meteors

[Malcolm J. Currie]

>         Nebulous meteors, as opposed to dark/black meteors, definitely emit
> light.  What I saw were not artifacts, they were slow moving, tear-drop
> shaped meteors the magnitude of which was not difficult to estimate.

I just want to echo Kim's riposte.  They're like a shooting nebula/Milky
Way.  Some I've seen expand along their short paths.  It's as if some
larger meteoroid with a crust containing dirty ices of micrometeoroids
pops as it hits the atmosphere and we see a collection of faint meteors
appear together, giving the diffuse effect.  I must do a Lew and
read the literature on the theories of what they are.

What we'd like is to capture some on video to end the doubts.  They're
quite rare.  Still with the video systems available and those to come on
line, we ought to get some examples to study soon.

> > This phenomenon has to be an artifact of the eye.

"This" presumably refers to dark meteors, which we believe are
artefacts.  Although Kim and I read it (at least initially) as referring
to the nebulous meteors too.

Malcolm