(meteorobs) Nice variety of Fireballs occured.
Chris Peterson
clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Sat Oct 6 15:17:46 EDT 2007
There is a formal IAU definition for fireball, which is any meteor with
an apparent magnitude brighter than any planets, which is generally
taken as -4 or brighter. The IMO sometimes uses a zenith normalized
value of brighter than magnitude -3.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Nice variety of Fireballs occured.
AFAIK, there isn't one for fireball, though.
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