(meteorobs) Meteors of 1962

[Bias, Peter V]

Wonderful to hear from the legendary Norman McLeod!
Like Robert Lunsford (I think) and some others, I started with the Leonids in 1966 and read about your exploits and observations in Meteor News in the early days. (I remember your discussion of the ’66 Leonids to this day!).
Just neat to bring back some very good memories of the early days before we were able to predict shower maximums to the minute. We were lucky to be on the right day back then!

    Pete Bias

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Norman W McLeod III
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 1:12 PM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteors of 1962

Full moon at Geminid max in 1962.  From Miami I watched an hour of max Dec 13/14 through the living room windows, as it was 35 F outside.  One of the great Florida freezes of the 20th century.  That was the coldest Miami morning of my life, up to that time.  I recall seeing around 9 Geminids and nothing else during the one hour.

Norman




On 9/2/2015 11:40 AM, Roberto Gorelli wrote:

Sorry for the bad English.



Working on possible meteor showers I found that it's possible

theorically that the comet C/1962 H1 Honda do a meteor shower with the

following caracteristic:



Right ascension (RA) 111,75° (around 7 H 30 M), Declination -25°



(that coordinates are at near 2° from star Tau Canis Majoris)



Maximum around 12,5 December



Somebody, expecially peoples living in Southern hemisphere, saw (or

read of) meteors around 1962 with a similar radiant?



I known that there are a near zero possibilility that this possible

radiant

was saw but ...

Best greetings.

Roberto Gorelli



P.S.: no one of the meteor showers known at today can to be related at

this comet

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Norman W. McLeod III

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