(meteorobs) REMINDER: *POSSIBLE* METEOR OUTBURST TONIGHT

Steven Kolins smkolins at mac.com
Sat Aug 14 16:21:07 EDT 2010


On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Pierre Martin wrote:

> Around 3:30 UT on 14 August 2010 an outburst with ZHRex=20-30 is  
> possible, high meteor brightness. The best place for observation would  
> be South America. Reliability of this prediction is much lower than  
> say for the Perseids or Leonids, as there weren't any apparent 45P-ids  
> outbursts in the past.

BTW I stayed up to watch for anything. I'm in the south east USA but watched from 3 -4 UT (which was 11-12 midnight on the 13th) and didn't see even one meteor, let along from this radiant in the south east. I could see down to about 5th magnitude.

Sorry.

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