(meteorobs) Daytime Craterids showing surprise activity *right now*

[Chris Peterson]

Yes, there has been quite a lot of discussion about this. No new 
estimates of meteor activity, however. The problem is that the comet was 
not observed during the perihelion passage that generated the particular 
debris stream we will encounter, and without knowing something about the 
actual activity at that time, actual ZHR values are little more than 
educated guesses.

New observations might help characterize the comet's behavior, but it is 
the previous, unobserved activity that is really important.

Jeremie Vaubaillon is looking for a few hundred thousand Euro to mount a 
dual aircraft observing campaign over North America in May, if you'd 
like to chip in... :)

Chris

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

On 8/29/2013 7:57 AM, Skywayinc at aol.com wrote:

> Has anyone at the Conference spoken about the possible outburst  associated
> with 209P/LINEAR next May?
>
> When this was announced last October, we were told that new  observations
> of the comet
> would help refine the ZHR forecast for this potential  display.  We were
> told that the "most likely"ZHR  would be 100 to 400, but a true "storm" (ZHR =
>> 1000) could not be ruled  out.
>
> Does anyone have anything new to add?  We are now only ~8 months away.
>
> -- joe rao