(meteorobs) 209P/LINEAR Meteor Shower Question

pzeller1966 pzeller1966 at gmail.com
Sat May 17 21:44:45 EDT 2014


It looks like my question has been answered. Thanks all! These meteors are
designated as "CAM" in Robert Lunsford's weekly observing guide.
On May 17, 2014 2:38 AM, "Bruce McCurdy" <bmccurdy at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Apologies to the list, this was supposed to be a forwarded note to an
> observing buddy, I obviously hit “reply” in error. Please ignore.
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> Bruce
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> *****
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> *From:* meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:
> meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] *On Behalf Of *Bruce McCurdy
> *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 6:39 PM
> *To:* 'Meteor science and meteor observing'
> *Subject:* Re: (meteorobs) 209P/LINEAR Meteor Shower Question
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> Hey Al, below is FYI. My own question is to confirm that you want “in” on
> chasing these suckers. I’m prepared to go a good long way if need be,
> (within reason). Are you limited by personal sked or other matters?
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> There may be others in our group interested in this uhh, pursuit.  We may
> want to car pool or convoy.
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> My own list of observing buddies always starts with you, thus this note. I
> just looked at the calendar and realized, holy moly, that’s a week tonight.
> Time to start getting it together.
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> Thanks.
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> Bruce
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> *From:* meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [
> mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org <meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *pzeller1966
> *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 5:02 PM
> *To:* Meteor science and meteor observing
> *Subject:* (meteorobs) 209P/LINEAR Meteor Shower Question
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>   I've recently read the predicted shower on May 24 is also called the
> "May Camelopardalids". Is there an official three-letter designation for
> this shower, like "PER" for the Perseids? Or is the IMO waiting for
> confirmation that the meteors will appear at all? I'm mainly asking for
> reporting purposes. Thanks! Paul Z.
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