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

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In a message dated 10/16/2007 9:47:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
meteoreye at comcast.net writes:
 
The other source that Rendtel mentions is: "Millman (1936) shows Orionid  
rates observed at Bologna by M. Loreta with a peak rate of 50 on 1936 October  
22. The rates on the days before and after the maximum are also relatively high  
and may this hint at a similar profile as we found it in 2006. The 
non-Orionid  rates of about 10-15 in most periods indicate there is no significant over  
correction of the Orionid rate."

Rendtel admits it is a relavtively small  sample of observational reports, 
but it does seem there may be something  there.

The article from the Astronomical Society of Japan that I mention  includes 
the reference to Loreta's observations above, and well as a report by  M.H. 
Wright in Popular Astronomy (1936) 44, 570
who "observed a remarkable  shower the night of 1936 October 19. "




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Thanks, Wayne! --
 
It looks like this weekend (and Monday a.m., too) I'll be outside on my  lawn 
chair checking the Orionids out. If the 1:6 resonance for these meteoroids  
pans out . . . and if Loreta and Wright's observations are to be believed, then 
 1936 + 71-years suggests we "might" be in for some exciting observing!
 
-- joe r.
 



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