(meteorobs) Leonids?

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue Nov 17 23:02:54 EST 2009


Interesting observation about the clumpiness. We've talked about the 
statistics of this before, and that may be all there is to it. But I 
recorded a very non-uniform distribution that seems to show about a 90 
minute periodicity. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. My data is at 
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/leonid2009.html

Chris

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Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Kolins" <smkolins at mac.com>
To: "Meteor Obs" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:06 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Leonids?


> Lot's of clumpiness - of the fourteen fully 6 came at least in pairs 
> separated by less than a minute. One event was a triplet in less than a 
> minute. The rest were isolated by at least 5 minutes.  I don't think 10 
> minutes passed without seeing something meteoric.




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