(meteorobs) Nice variety of Fireballs occured.

Ed Majden epmajden at shaw.ca
Sat Oct 6 16:29:00 EDT 2007


	There are several definitions listed on the IMO Web site at: 
http://www.imo.net/imo/intro  Look under definitions.

Ed Majden

On 6-Oct-07, at 12:17 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:

> 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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