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

Jim Wooddell jimwooddell at gmail.com
Fri May 3 09:59:08 EDT 2013


Aquariids?

Jim



On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:41 AM, James Beauchamp <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> 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:
>
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> 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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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Beauchamp <falcon99 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> 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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