(meteorobs) Global coverage of the 209P/LINEAR dust trails encounter

[Josep Maria Trigo]

    Dear colleagues,

    Great that you are keeping an eye to the global activity. FYI, let 
me explain that in order to popularize in Spanish-speaking countries the 
encounter beetween the Earth and 209P/LINEAR dust trails I have 
published this info and observing call in my SciLog blogs:
http://www.investigacionyciencia.es/blogs/astronomia/45/posts/una-tormenta-meterica-el-prximo-24-de-mayo-12078

    Feel free to distribute this link among colleagues. We are also 
promoting a global coverage over Central and South America from the Liga 
Iberoamericana de Astronomía (LIADA: www.liada.net), having obviously in 
mind the observational constraints. From most of these countries the 
radiant is low or under the horizon and the activity will occur in broad 
daylight, but we cannot discard the presence of large Earth-grazing 
bolides that might be, particularly under the right geometric 
circumstances, sources of meteorites. Remember the Ye and Wiegert (2014) 
MNRAS 437, 3283 predictions about the particle size. To recover a 
meteorite from this evolved (transitional) comet could be of the highest 
scientific relevance.

    Good luck to everyone!

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 Ph.D. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez
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