(meteorobs) odd meteor

Roberto G. md6648 at mclink.it
Sat Feb 24 04:05:03 EST 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hostetter" <dehostetter at cox.net>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:07 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) odd meteor


>I got an interesting call at the planetarium today from a woman asking
>about
> a "meteor shower" she saw this morning.  She was driving to work at 4:45
> AM
> CST heading south on Interstate 49 from Sunset to Lafayette, LA, when she
> saw a cluster of objects heading from right to left right in front of her.
> She described them as intensely green, bright, but apparently not fireball
> bright.
>
> What was odd was that there were several objects.  The first one was a
> cluster of meteors, followed almost immediately by a single one, then
> another single one, then another cluster, then another single one.  All
> seemed to be moving along similar paths, although the last one was
> slightly
> different.  I didn't find a record of any expected satellite entries for
> that time, but I suppose some sort of space debris is possible.
>
> Has anyone else seen or heard of such a meteor cluster?  Any one of these
> would be a nice sight, but having several, one right after the other, sure
> seems unusual.  What do you think?  Just an unusual group of meteors?
> Space
> debris?  Other suggestions?
>
> Of course I was asleep at the time -- I always seem to miss out on the
> really good stuff!
>
> Dave Hostetter

See 9 February 1913, Cyrillids: perharps it's a similar event.

http://www.motygido.co.uk/bahamas_lights.htm
http://www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/index.html#Cyrillids
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630013284_1963013284.pdf
http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg03855.html

Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli




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