(meteorobs) Perseid predictions?

[Pat]

This is why it is important for everyone to report their observations...even bad ones. So these guys can characterize the distribution of the streams!

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Skywayinc at ... wrote:
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> In a message dated 7/30/2012 10:56:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> kramer at ... writes:
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> I can't seem to find much in the way of predictions for the Perseid  peak.
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> Could anyone please post or point me at  some?
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> According to meteorobs own Mikhail Maslov, this  year's Perseid peak will 
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> on August 13 at 13:19 UT .  He expects a ZHR of 100.  
> See: _http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/Perseids2012eng.html_ 
> (http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/Perseids2012eng.html) 
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> Another contributor to meteorobs, Jérémie  Vaubaillon, depicts Earth's 2012 
> passage 
> through the Perseid swarm here: _http://tinyurl.com/bsh59cv_ 
> (http://tinyurl.com/bsh59cv) 
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> This clearly shows that we will pass through most of the  dusty debris from
> 109P/Swift-Tuttle between August 12.0 and 12.5 UT. 
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> Finally, in the RASC Observer's Handbook for 2012,  Margaret Campbell-Brown 
> and Peter Brown indicate this year's peak will be on  August 12 at 12h UT.
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> So it would seem that Sunday morning, August 12 will be  the best time for
> peak activity from the Perseids, although if Mikhail is  correct, Monday
> morning, the 13th could also be fruitful as well. 
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> -- joe rao
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