(meteorobs) Recent meteor actibvity

[cookewj at comcast.net]

Over the past few days, our ASGARD systems here in the SouthEast and in New Mexico have detected meteors from 6 different showers: The Southern Taurids, associated with Comet Encke, the Orionids, associated with Comet Halley, the October Delta Aurigids, the October Ursae Majorids, the Chi Taurids, and the Epsilon Geminds. With this many showers going on, it is not surprising fireball rates should show a bump during this week. 

Orbital data for all these meteors are consistent with a cometary or main belt origin - there is nothing in the data that would indicate correlations with any known NEO. 

Link to orbit plots for past 6 days: 
http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111014.png 
http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111015.png 
http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111016.png 
http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111017.png 

http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111018.png 
http://www.billcooke.org/Orbit_Plots/orbital_20111019.png 


Also: 


http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Watch%20the%20Skies/posts/post_1318960826447.html 


Regards, 
Bill Cooke 
Meteoroid Environments Office 
EV44, Marshall Space Flight Center 

Office: (256) 544-9136 
Fax: (256) 544-0242 
William.J.Cooke at nasa.gov 
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