(meteorobs) Curved traces

[Bias, Peter V]

Having observed since 1966 and seen thousands of meteors, I can say that I've never seen a curved meteor. And I don't think we have any pictures of curved meteors (we would have certainly talked about it in this forum) despite an almost constant fireball watch for more than a decade over the entire globe. 
I'm thinking it is something other than a meteor.
    Pete 



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From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] on behalf of Pavel Zhavoronkov [pavel-syr at yandex.ru]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 4:19 AM
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: (meteorobs) Curved traces

Hi, group!

I just would like to know, whether do really exist meteors with curved traces ?

 I'm very interested about this question because a few days ago - 21 April -  I really saw such meteor with very curved trace: it has changed trace on approximately 130 degrees ! - it trajectory almost reversed. It was very like on a tennis ball, which  jumped aside from wall. It's color was blue and probably it belongs to Lyrids shower.

Earlier, I already heard a few similar reports about such traces from several absolutely different observers - on my opinion, it didn't on a mistakes or optical illusion...


Pavel from Northern Russia.

Clear skies!
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