(meteorobs) Leonis Minorid Shower

[pzeller1966]

  I realize that this is weeks old, but I had a chance to get outside for
40 minutes before dawn on Monday October 21st to do some meteor observing.
I'd had the Orionid shower in mind and I did spot one faint member of that
shower during that time, but I also spotted two bright meteors that seemed
to both come from Leo Minor. I didn't realize that there was a minor shower
called the Leonis Minorids that peaks around that date until the next day
when I was reading Robert Lunsford's Meteor Activity Outlook for that week.
That article seemed to indicate that the hourly rate for this shower was
just about 1 per hour. I'm wondering if any experienced observers saw a
more active LMI shower than usual this year? I was observing October 21
between 8:15 - 8:55 UT. There was bright moonlight but I could see stars as
faint as 4.5 magnitude looking high in the East-Northeast. The Orionid was
about 3.0 magnitude and the Leonis Minorid meteors (if this is what they
were) were 1.0 and 0.0 magnitude. The brighter one had a train that lasted
about 1 second.

  Paul Zeller
  SE Indianapolis, IN, USA
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