(meteorobs) Recent meteor actibvity
Chris Peterson
clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Wed Oct 19 12:43:21 EDT 2011
Similar results here. For the last week from one camera:
October Ursa Majorid OCU 3
epsilon Geminid EGE 17
Orionid ORI 77
S Taurid STA 13
N Taurid NTA 16
Sporadic SPO 54
Total meteors: 180
A number of the sporadics are shower members that were excluded by the
single station radiant analyzer. These results are pretty much typical
for what I see every year at this time. There have been some nice
fireballs this week:
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43606
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43657
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43761
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=43783
Two of these were sporadic, two were Orionids. Again, pretty typical for
this time of year.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
On 10/19/2011 8:45 AM, cookewj at comcast.net wrote:
> 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
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