(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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