(meteorobs) Leonid fireball numbers from NASA meteor cameras

Bill Cooke cookewj at comcast.net
Tue Nov 20 22:58:50 EST 2012


Note: Weather was a factor on the 20th - couple of cameras experience periods of cloudiness

UT day - # multi station Leonids
11/12 - 1
11/13 - 1
11/15 - 2
11/16 - 2
11/17 - 6
11/18 - 15
11/19 - 26
11/20 - 3

Our cameras detect practically all meteors with peak magnitudes brighter than -2.5. Any secondary peak involving faint meteors would not show up well, if at all.

Plots: 

Radiants (RA/Dec): http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/LEO_2012/starmap.png
Radiants (sun centered ecliptic): http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/LEO_2012/radiant.png
Orbits (parent comet in purple): http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/LEO_2012/orbital.png
Histograms: http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/LEO_2012/distrib.png
Locations in U.S.A.:  http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/special/LEO_2012/mapspot.png

Regards,
Bill Cooke
NASA Meteoroid Environments Office



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