(meteorobs) Nice variety of Fireballs occured.
meteoreye at comcast.net
meteoreye at comcast.net
Sat Oct 6 15:49:59 EDT 2007
Is there a master list of IAU definitions? I can't find anything at all on the website. A search for fireball returns nothing, and Comm 22 has nothing there I could find.
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From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
> 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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> AFAIK, there isn't one for fireball, though.
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