(meteorobs) Quick June Bootid Summary

[josephasmus at cox.net]

Again work commitments prevented me from observing and I had to decline Bob L.'s invite up to Mt Laguna for what appears to be some darn good JBO activity!..  

I just want to say THANK YOU! to Lew for maintaining and supporting this e-group for all these years.. so those of us that can not observe in person can get the next best thing.. instant global reports from those who can! 

Again, thank you to Lew and to all of you who post your reports!

Joseph Assmus
San Diego, CA






> 
> From: "Robert Lunsford" <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
> Date: 2004/06/23 Wed AM 09:51:38 EDT
> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
> Subject: (meteorobs) Quick June Bootid Summary
> 
> I can confirm Pierre's statement that the JBO's have indeed returned. I
> started an hour after Pierre quit (8:38 UT) and watched for the next three
> hours under skies between +6.5 and +7.0. I counted a total of 48 meteors, 20
> of which were possible/probable June Bootids. A majority of them appeared to
> occur in three distinct periods, like the Earth was passing through the old
> trails of the parent comet. The first occurred near 0913 UT, when 5 JBO's
> were recorded in quick succession. The second near 9:37 UT, when 7 JBO's
> were recorded. The last "mini swarm" occurred near 1030 UT when 5 more were
> seen. The radiant was very low after 1030 UT and only 4 more JBO's were seen
> in that last hour. Twilight was also getting bad after 1130 UT.
> 
> A majority of the JBO's seemed to be magnitude +2, although there were a few
> faint ones and one of magnitude -1. I managed to plot approximately half of
> them as some of them appeared at the edge of my field of view and therefore
> were difficult to plot accurately. The most impressive JBO occurred at 1038
> UT when a zero magnitude meteor crawled upward just north of the Hercules
> "Keystone". Even though it only traveled 3 degrees the beautiful golden
> yellow color was obvious.
> 
> OK, time to starting crunching numbers!
> 
> Bob Lunsford
> Mt. Laguna, CA
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