(meteorobs) "The 2007 September 1 Aurigid Meteor Storm"!?
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Skywayinc at aol.com
Thu Aug 17 19:33:37 EDT 2006
In a message dated 8/11/2006 9:09:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de writes:
On August 18 from 16:00 to 16:05 Peter Jenniskens will make an announcement
at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague
about an
"Aurigid Meteor Storm, 1 September 2007" (in an earlier Version of the
website -
http://www.astronomy2006.com/special-sessions-hot-topics.php - it actually
said
"The 2007 September 1 Aurigid Meteor Storm", as if it were an absolute fact).
Has anyone heard about such a prediction? If you google for "Aurigid Meteor
Storm"
you get exactly one hit: the website mentioned above ...
With many thanks to Esko Lyytinen, I was able to file
the following story about the Aurigids this afternoon at the SPACE.com
website:
_http://space.com/spacewatch/060817_meteor_shower.html_
(http://space.com/spacewatch/060817_meteor_shower.html)
-- joe rao
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