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

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> Today's Topics: 
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> 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 
> 
> - 
> 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 
> Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.1.20070629030517.02338e98 at nmcleod@peganet.com> 
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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? 
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org 
> Message-ID: <4684F8DB.3266080B at penn.com> 
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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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