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(meteorobs) My catch up responses


Well, like most of you probably noticed, if you are gone one day you will
return with a ton of email to go over.  Yesterday I worked and when I got
home this morning....WHOA!  Anyhow, I will try to put my two cents worth into
several things here in one message to catch up some.  

First of all, George G and Jim H. I will be postal mailing you a set of
plotting charts to make copies from.  Also some meteor recording forms.  I
will be mailing them off in a few minutes.

I believe wayne asked about if he plotting meteors for 2 nights in a row,
could he do it all on one chart?  No wayne,  I prefer separate charts for
separate nights. Less confusion...even on slow nights. Only consolidate the
nights for your own personal study or analysis. 

I believe Wayne or Lew mentioned questioned about I plot while Bob doesn't.
 The truth of the matter, Bob and I plot about equally...almost always except
for major shower activity.  Only on rare occasions does one plot while the
other "counts".  Sometimes Bob will tape record major shower activity and
plot minor shower activity simultaneously. I don't, but this is mainly
because I got quite a bit going on as it is during the night.  I usually
operate a camera quite diligently. 

About the discussion on showers not listed in IMO's working list etc.  Well,
I think it was thoroughly hashed out and I pretty much agree with the outcome
that I caught out of it all...that is, NAMN recognizes only IMO's working
list.  All other meteors are sporadics.  You can put a little minor shower
code off to the side for those meteors you think belong to it..only if you
plotted.  If you are only counting, I'd feel more comfortable that you list
them as sporadics. 

It was questioned about Meteor News being maybe defunct.  Well, I just got a
short note from Wanda Simmons last week.  She indicated that they are still
in business. So...their demise is premature still.

As to the "June Lyrids".  As Rainer pointed out, their geocentric velocity is
31 km/s. This would give it a NAMN Scale of acceptance of 2,3,and 4...If you
seen any that appeared very fast, you didn't see a June Lyrid. Plots for this
shower is very much necessary to iron out some of these unknowns.  I
personally will be out observing(Plotting) This Saturday, Sunday and
hopefully monday night...this is dependent on my wife's tolerance to this
idea. Sat and Sun is a shoe in.  I will be observing hopefully on the night
of June 15/16, although I will be working the following day.  I won't be able
to observe the previous night, but I think this thing is suppose to have a
longer life span than 1 night.  So...I'll be trying to concentrate my efforts
for possible June Lyrids these next few nights. 

George Z.