(meteorobs) An outburst of Eta Aquarid fireballs?

[Chris Peterson]

With so few events from a single camera, it's hard to say whether a 
cluster is statistically significant. Here's what I had from central 
Colorado (clear skies).

2012.05.04 10:23:30
2012.05.04 10:36:38
2012.05.04 10:45:54
2012.05.04 10:47:29
2012.05.04 10:48:49
2012.05.04 11:03:23
2012.05.04 11:13:17
2012.05.04 11:13:44
2012.05.04 11:17:07

All of these are confirmed ETAs. Seems like the activity from 1045 to 
1115 is somewhat higher than I'd normally expect.

Should have more camera data later.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 5/4/2012 7:29 AM, cookewj at comcast.net wrote:
> 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