(meteorobs) Geminids on 12/13-14/10 from the Mojave Desert

Wes Stone howard048 at centurytel.net
Fri Dec 24 15:47:28 EST 2010


Robin,

49 sporadics in an hour? That's pretty insane! I've gotten 28-30+ a couple 
of times, but with better LMs and I wasn't associating minor showers.

Wes Stone
Chiloquin, OR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Gray" <sevenvalleysent at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:26 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Geminids on 12/13-14/10 from the Mojave Desert


> Bob Lunsford and I were on a meteor campout in the Mojave Desert in 
> California
> to observe the Geminids. We had one clear night, that of December 13-14, 
> and the
> following is what I saw.
>
> December 14, 2010, 8:02 -14:02 UT  Field Road, California Longitude 116 
> degrees
> 33' 17"; Latitude 35 degrees 2' 4"
>
> Meteors Observed:
>
> UT Period   Field    Teff     F    LM    GEM   COM   HYD   MON   PUP   DLM 
> SPO
>
> 802-908      60S     1.0    1.0   6.57    56       1         2         2
> 0        0        25
>
> 908-1015    60S     1.0     1.0  6.61    59       3         5         1
> 0        1         34
>
> 1015-1121  60S      .99    1.0   6.84   44       4         2          0
> 1        0         49
>
> 1121-1226   60S    1.0     1.0   6.58   39        3        2          0
> 0        0         34
>
> 1226-1330   60S     1.0    1.0   6.67   36        2        2          0 
> 0
>       0          23
>
> 1330-1402   60S     .52     1.0  5.33    3         0        0          0 
> 0
>       0          8
>
> Totals:                  5.51                    237      13      13 
> 3
>    1        1         173
>
>
> Total Meteors: 441
>
>
> Magnitude Distribution
>
> Shower    -5     -4     -3     -2     -1     0     1     2     3     4 
> 5
>
> GEM        0      1      5    16     19    31   40   55    41   23    7
>
> COM        0      0      0     1       0     1      1    3      3    4 
> 0
>
> HYD         0      0      0     0       0     1      2    1      2    4 
> 3
>
> MON        0      0      0     0       0     1      2     0      0    1 
> 0
>
> PUP         0      0      0     0       0     0      0     0      0    1 
> 0
>
> DLM         0      0      0     0       0     0      1     0      0    0 
> 0
>
> SPO         1      2      0     3       4     9      25   35    38   20 
> 26
>
>
>
>
>
> Robin Gray
> Winnemucca, Nevada
>
>
>
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