(meteorobs) September Perseids

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Mon Sep 1 13:56:43 EDT 2008


I would list them as SPEs...

Mark Davis, South Carolina, USA
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pmartsching at mchsi.com wrote:
> During my last four observing sessions 28/29 Aug - 31 Aug/1 Sep) I have seen
> what look like September Perseids (fast, quite a few trains; rates generally
> less than one per hour - with several exceptions) apparently coming from a
> radiant in the general vicinity of Mirfak in Perseus (about where the SPE
> radiant should be on those dates) - yet I read this shower isn't supposed to
> begin till about September 5th.  Am I to consider these to just be sporadics???
>  If I see similar meteors 4 nights from now they will be called September
> Perseids without question.  
> 
> Paul Martsching
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