(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[Bruce McCurdy]

The 2001 Leonids were mighty well-placed for North America. 

 

I got more in Leonids one hour (655) than total meteors for any other night
in my 25 years of meteor observing.

 

Still, I'm getting mighty sick of reading "16h UT" for some of these intense
flurries. 

 

Bruce

*****

 

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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:08 PM
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north
Florida

 

I think we used up our "storm allowance" during the 1966 Leonids. For how
long? Who knows??? Hopefully our longitudes will see something in the not
too distant future before the demise of our generation of meteor observers.

 

Come to think of think of it, even the 1966 Leonids were not perfect for
North America as the dawn intervened on the Atlantic coast before the
maximum :-(

 

Oh yes, there was the 1985 Alpha Monocerotids, unpredicted, over in a flash
(30min), and pretty much unseen. 

 

Clear Skies!

 

Bob

---- Paul Jones < <mailto:jonesp0854 at gmail.com> jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I've noticed that too, Joe.  It's almost as if North America's been 

> declared a "Draconid Free Zone" of late...;o).  Even the 1999 Leonid 

> storm did that too, hitting over the Middle East and Europe 

> exclusively.  I was clouded out in Sicily for that one, seeing only a five
minute glimpse

> through a sucker hole in the clouds.    Fortunately, the Leonids were

> kinder to us over here in 2001 and 2002, however.

> Seriously though, in the case of the Draconids, is there a scientific 

> explanation I wonder for a stream outburst to keep hitting the same 

> time zones on Earth over and over again, even in different years?  Or 

> is it just strictly luck of the draw each time?

> 

> Clear skies and may the Orionids be with us, Paul

 

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