(meteorobs) Major Draconid outburst under way

Mikhail Maslov skjeller at yandex.ru
Tue Oct 9 01:04:58 EDT 2012


Well, the Draconids surpassed my expectations again :) But anyway the
meteor forecasts are useful in the meaning they show when and where to
look for something unusual.

Considering high ejection velocities of trails encountered by the
Earth (41 m/s for 1959 trail), low meteor brighness was expected, but
of course I could not imagine that it would result in radiostorm.

I had great hopes to check this case visually here in Novosibirsk, as
the timing was very favorable, but the sky was cloudy. There were
small gaps during the outburst, I'm going to check if some meteors
were captured by my camera.

Best regards,
Mikhail



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