Re: Meteor Colors

To: meteorobs@latradedot com
Subject: Re: Meteor Colors
From: Lew Gramer & Karen Simmons <lewkaren@tiacdot net>
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 16:09:47 -0500

[Hope you don't mind my forwarding this to the list, George... I've GOT to
get that mail-header problem fixed soon. :>]

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>From: GeoZay@aoldot com
>Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 15:59:38 -0400
>To: lewkaren@tiacdot net
>Subject: Re: Meteor Colors
>
>Lew,
>
>About green colors in persistent trains as a product of the meteor and not
>the eye.  Well, I haven't seen any paper on it, but Lately I've been forming
>the opinion thru my own observations that persistent train/meteor colors may
>also be a function of where the radiant is located.  that is, radiants at or
>near the horizon, I've noticed  often to have an appearance of a dull green
>or dull blue. It's sort of saying that if you add grey to both green or blue
>is what it appears to what I'm seeing.  But as the radiant climbs higher up,
>I see these colors less frequently. But a meteor with a pale green
>tint...especially for a bright meteor, I'm more inclined to think it is not
>the meteor, but rather an emission from excited oxygen atoms from the
>atmosphere that were created by the passage of the meteor.
>George
>
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