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

[pbrown]

It is the Eta Aquariids  - see 

http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/cmor-radiants/index.html

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wooddell
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:59 AM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Anyone else notice a rise of meteors in the last
few days?

 

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:


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

 





-----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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