(meteorobs) RE: meteorobs Digest, Vol 38, Issue 27

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Today's Topics:

1. Reporting fireballs (Ed Majden)
2. Video meteors of May 17/18, 2007 (Enrico Stomeo)
3. Re: Shuttle re-entry map help please-correction
(Norman W. McLeod III)
4. Good radios for tv carrier meteor scatter? (drobnock)
5. Re: Shuttle re-entry map help please-correction (Steven Kolins)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:24:19 -0700
From: Ed Majden 
Subject: (meteorobs) Reporting fireballs
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum 
Cc: RASCals Discussion List 
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When reporting fireball events please use U.T. Universal Time
and the 
Date. If you use local time indicate your "time zone" and if the time 
is Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time. This will assist operators 
of all-sky cameras to search their video tapes to see if it has been 
recorded.. This prevents confusion and saves time.

Thanks:

Ed Majden - EMO Sandia Bolide Detection Station - Courtenay, B.C. 
Canada.

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:34:19 +0200
From: Enrico Stomeo 
Subject: (meteorobs) Video meteors of May 17/18, 2007
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Video meteors of May 17/18, 2007

May07________UT______Teff__vLm___Cf TOT 
17,846 195000-204734 0,959 4,11 1,00 04 1LIB 3SPO 
17,886 204734-214508 0,959 4,30 1,01 05 1LIB 1OPHs 1OPHn 2SPO 
17,926 214508-224242 0,959 4,30 1,00 03 3SPO 
17,966 224242-234017 0,959 4,30 1,00 05 1LIB 4SPO 
18,006 234017-003751 0,959 4,30 1,00 02 1OPHs 1SPO 
18,046 003751-013525 0,959 4,20 1,05 01 1SPO 
18,086 033525-023259 0,959 4,10 1,93 02 2SPO 
_____________________6,713 4,23 1,14 

TOTAL _____________ 22 

LIB (alpha VIR) ___ 3
OPH-S _____________ 2
OPH-N _____________ 1
Sporadics _________ 16

RADIANTS
LIB (alpha VIR) ___ 233,-18 May.06
OPH-S _____________ 252,-23 May.15
OPH-N _____________ 252,-17 May.12

MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION
0.5(-1) 3(+0) 8(+1) 9.5(+2) 1(+3) -> Tot 22, mean +1.34

Obs: Enrico STOMEO (STOEN) 
Loc: Scorze'(VE), Italy, +45.5682 -12.1134 +20 (IMO code 14083)
VideoCamera ccd: Ob.3,8 (zenithal field 89.2x68.6) + MetRec_40 

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Visit: http://meteore.uai.it

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:24:36 -0400
From: "Norman W. McLeod III" 
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Shuttle re-entry map help please-correction
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum 
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>Now that the shuttle is landing in California it appears it will pass 
>directly overhead for me just before landing. Has anyone else been in
this 
>position and can it be see/heard on approach during daylight?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Bob Lunsford
>San Diego, CA

Bob,

Several times the shuttle has passed over Fort Myers about 10 minutes 
before landing at Cape Canaveral. I haven't seen it, clearly too 
high. Already past the fireballing stage -- Texas and Mexico are in the

best shape for that. Hearing it is a load of fun, the booms are so
eerie 
coming out of nowhere. One time I was sitting here at my desk, and the 
booms sounded like two bowling balls dropping onto a sheet of plywood
half 
a second apart, plus the sound seemed to be straight over my head.

On another matter, my wife Joan passed away on May 23 from cardiac 
arrest. It happened on the one day I was away all day at a tax 
meeting. Am thinking it was better that way, sparing her an ignominious

encounter with the medical establishment. I got off the easiest way for

the situation. There was no hint of trouble when I left before 7 AM,
and 
clues show it must have happened quite soon thereafter. Just a year 
earlier our priest was dying of cancer -- he had a cardiac arrest, was 
brought back, tubed and wired up, and tied to his bed for a miserable
and 
expensive extra month before passing on anyway. We hoped that would
never 
happen to us. Joan was 76, and I just turned 61. The rest of this year
my 
job will be cleaning up and clearing out the house.

Norman

Norman W. McLeod III
Staff Advisor
American Meteor Society

Fort Myers, Florida
nmcleod at peganet.com

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:19:39 -0400
From: drobnock 
Subject: (meteorobs) Good radios for tv carrier meteor scatter?
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(third attempt to send)

I am attaching a web page ( for northern hemisphere observers) that
maybe of interest to those interested in meteor scatter and searching
for new frequencies that may not have originally been considered.

The site includes real time propagation predictions for 6 and 2 metre
beacons. The site also includes a map plotting meteor/airplane scatter
received stations. --- Yes it is possible to bounce a radio signal --
FM, TV, amateur, utility-- of an airplane.

Side note (urban legend?) -- in the 1940's there were several air
disasters caused from radar bouncing off cargo planes carrying
photographic flash bulbs made with magnesium. The high power emp would
ignite the filaments. Creating a fire within the aircraft cargo area.

Also suggestions of utility stations weather beacon stations (NOAA) and
air navigation beacons.

Not all these frequencies are an option for meteor work, as the
transmitting stations may be low power (the utility stations) others
such as the 6/2 metre may be intermittent operation. Also other factors
such as ducting and E -sporadic may create other problems.

http://www.geocities.com/kw4rz/DX_FM.html

George John Drobnock

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:42:49 -0400
From: Steven Kolins 
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Shuttle re-entry map help please-correction
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum 
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On Jun 29, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Norman W. McLeod III wrote:

> The rest of this year ...

Our condolences on your loss and our hope that your long life 
together has such happiness that you can feel the warmth of her love 
for you the rest of your life, and the light shown upon your lives 
echo across the universe with your love's specific imprint on it.

= - - - - - - - =
Steven Kolins
mailto:smkolins at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/smkolins/
Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart!
They that believe in vain thoughts forsake their own mercy.

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