Re: Nebulous meteors

To: meteorobs@latradedot com
Subject: Re: Nebulous meteors
From: Marc de Lignie <mcdelign@pidot net>
Date: Sat, 25 May 96 21:09:00 PDT
Posted-Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 18:45:05 +0200 (MET DST)
Sender: Marc de Lignie <mclignie@pidot net>

Dear neboulous meteor observers,

You can find a video recording of an event very similar to George's description below, on 
IMO's video WWW page, maintained by Sirko Molau. The original recording was made by 
Klaas Jobse and digitized into an MPEG film by me. If you do not have an MPEG player 
just look around in the public domain software to find one.

Also note that in one of the WGN discussions on dark/nebulous meteors there was a 
reference to Russian work that supposed that these meteors occurred much higher in the 
atmosphere (faster diffusion) than ordinary meteors. So, double station recordings of such 
events are required!

Marc

>Around July 3rd I saw a meteor that may be related to the "sparkler". It
>appeared broad-shaped like the "sparkler", but it did not sparkle.  It was
>"solid" and of 3rd or 4th magnitude.  The light from it seemed homogenous and
>soft.  The best way I can describe it was to say that it resembled a section
>of a bright persistent train that moved like a meteor.  Other than sayhing to
>Lunsford that the meteor was funny looking, nothing more was said.
> Unfortunately, Lunsford was recording data from a previous meteor at the
>time  I made my sighting."

>George
>

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