(meteorobs) Re: Gary Kronk Comets and Meteors shower site off line

[kronk at cometography.com]

To everyone,

The American Meteor Society first began hosting my "Comets and Meteor
Showers" web site somewhere around a decade ago. Prior to that it was
hosted on a university server that I was using at my place of
employment, but university policy changed around 1998 and the AMS
basically came to my rescue. During 2001, I decided to greatly upgrade
the comet portion of the web site and felt I needed to move those files
to a new server; thus, cometography.com was born and was named after my
book series. All comet links on my "Comets and Meteor Showers" site
were subsequently changed to point to the cometography site. 

Last summer, I decided to create a meteor shower web site that was
written almost exclusively for the beginner. I bought the web address
of meteorshowersonline.com and successfully "advertised" it on my
Cometography and "Comets and Meteor Showers" sites. 

This February, due to reasons beyond the control of the AMS, the server
hosting their web sites and e-mail went down for three weeks. After two
weeks, I decided I had to do something...mainly because of the loss of
e-mail. In the process, I decided to move the entire meteor shower
calendar to the meteorshowersonline site. 

So, meteorshowersonline is now a conglomeration of text written for the
beginner and the text that was published in my 1988 book. I hope to get
the site properly sorted out in a couple of months, but am currently
facing a deadline for the next volume of Cometography. As Ed mentioned,
I will be including new minor radiants that have been announced and
already have a couple of these included that were not in my 1988 book.
I have basically been scouring meteorobs for this material, but if
anyone has been keeping track of new radiants reported since the
mid-1990s, I would love to see a list!

Sincerely,
Gary


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: (meteorobs)  Re: Gary Kronk Comets and Meteors shower site off
> line
> From: Ed Cannon <ecannon at mail.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tue, April 17, 2007 1:56 am
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> 
> These seem to be Gary Kronk's new web meteor shower and comet domains:
> http://meteorshowersonline.com/ http://cometography.com/ On his meteor
> shower calendar, there's this statement: "New discoveries of minor
> meteor radiants are included." Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA ---
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