(meteorobs) Meteor Activity Outlook for October 12-18, 2007

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In a message dated 10/11/2007 4:02:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
meteoreye at comcast.net writes:
 
This resonance may explain enhanced Orionid counts from 1936-1938 from  the
previous orbit of this concentration (~ 72 years).
 


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I have been doing some research and cannot find any reference that points  
toward such enhanced Orionid counts from 1936-1938.  In "Handbook for  Visual 
Meteor Observations," edited by Paul Roggemans (Sky Publishing Corp.  1989), we 
find on page 151, a table listing Orionid activity from AD 585 to  1987.  For 
1936, we find a ZHR of only 12 and in 1938, just 19 (there was  nearly full 
Moon in 1937).  So, if anything, in at least two out of three  of those 
"enhanced years" the Orionid ZHR was below-to-much below the oft-quoted  figure of 25! 
 
-- joe rao
 
 
  



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