(meteorobs) Negative 2012 Draconid visual report from north Florida

[Robert Lunsford]

Bruce and All,

Yes the 2001 Leonids were impressive from North America but I believe they were even better from East Asia. 

I agree your 16UT statement. These recent flurries certainly seem to favor the hours between 12 and 24 UT. Perhaps the display from comet 209P/LINEAR in May 2014 will end this frustration.

Clear Skies,

Bob

---- Bruce McCurdy <bmccurdy at shaw.ca> wrote: 
> The 2001 Leonids were mighty well-placed for North America. 
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> 
> 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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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Robert Lunsford
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:08 PM
> To: Meteor science and meteor observing
> 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 :-(
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> 
> Oh yes, there was the 1985 Alpha Monocerotids, unpredicted, over in a flash
> (30min), and pretty much unseen. 
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> Clear Skies!
> 
>  
> 
> Bob
> 
> ---- Paul Jones < <mailto:jonesp0854 at gmail.com> jonesp0854 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> > 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?
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> > 
> 
> > Clear skies and may the Orionids be with us, Paul
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