(meteorobs) Anyone else notice a rise of meteors in the last few days?

[James Beauchamp]

Ah, thanks!  Been working way too many hours this year and forgot about this one.  Noticed it came up on spaceweather.com too. 
 
Thanks for the excellent reply!
 
Some of the two-minute screen captures of the rader scatter (waterfall) had five or six events.  I'm seeing peaks and lull periods of several minutes at a time, almost like there are minute "waves" of dust.  Very interesting.

--- On Fri, 5/3/13, spacerocks at spaceballoon.org <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org> wrote:


From: spacerocks at spaceballoon.org <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Anyone else notice a rise of meteors in the last few days?
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013, 8:25 AM




Hi James,

We're in the peak soon for Eta Aquarids, a shower we can accredit to Halley's comet.  - Jodie


 



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From: James Beauchamp <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Fri, 03 May 2013 6:03
Subject: (meteorobs) Anyone else notice a rise of meteors in the last few days?





Hi all, 


Especially last night, I'm noticing the radar scatter rates peaking / wavering between 20 to 70 per hour in pre-dawn hours.  Most of them are under-dense, but there are a few persistent over-dense ones smattered about.  Interestingly, those have been absent compared to previous years.


The months prior to that have been almost nil.  Are these sporadics or is this a known minor shower?


James


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