(meteorobs) Possible June Lyrid fireball

[Ed Majden]

Chris:
	I would check with Jiri Borovicka, and others re the velocity of  
these shower meteors.  I wonder if the old Super Schmidt data would  
have good velocities for them.
Ed



On 25-Jun-10, at 12:21 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion. However, the event I recorded was only  
> 4° from
> the JLY radiant, and 21° from the XDR radiant. Since my positional  
> error
> range is on the order of 5°, a XDR seems unlikely despite the higher
> velocity.
>
> I am suspicious of the reported velocities for both the JLY and XDR  
> showers,
> given that past observations have been visual and rare. Of course, the
> accuracy of the radiants is similarly suspect.
>
> The meteor I recorded may have simply been a sporadic  
> coincidentally aligned
> with the reported JLY radiant. I would say that the nature of its
> disintegration was more generally suggestive of something cometary  
> (porous
> and fragile) than of the more rocky material I normally associate with
> sporadic fireballs.
>
> Chris
>
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