(meteorobs) An outburst of Eta Aquarid fireballs?

cookewj at comcast.net cookewj at comcast.net
Fri May 4 09:29:19 EDT 2012


As you can see from this morning's automatic email (below), our New Mexico stations (the ones in the SE are clouded out) picked up an unusual cluster of eta Aquarid fireballs this morning around 11 UT. Did anyone else see similar? 

Regards, 

Bill Cooke 
NASA Meteoroid Environments office 


date time : : vel mass beg end : src 
-------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+----- 
+ 20120504 09:23:53 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 66.4 -1.94 112.6 95.8 : ETA 
+ 20120504 09:57:51 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 46.2 -2.45 100.2 76.9 : ELY 
+ 20120504 10:17:51 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 64.5 -2.83 107.9 93.1 : ... 
+ 20120504 10:46:46 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 64.4 -3.92 107.2 100.3 : ETA 
+ 20120504 11:02:36 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : .... ..... ..... ..... : ... 
+ 20120504 11:05:38 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 63.8 -2.97 104.5 93.4 : ETA 
+ 20120504 11:10:55 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 66.2 -2.54 112.6 90.7 : ETA 
+ 20120504 11:11:59 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 65.7 -3.54 106.2 94.0 : ETA 
+ 20120504 11:25:45 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 68.0 -1.74 115.1 85.9 : ETA 
+ 20120504 11:27:29 : -- -- -- -- 05 06 -- : 64.1 -2.35 106.3 94.3 : ETA 

ETA : eta_Aquariids 
ELY : eta_Lyrids 


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