(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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