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Re: (meteorobs) Aug 8/9 Meteor Results

Hi Casper/Marco
Hope you got clear skies afterall.  I got 5 Perseids here between 01h13 and
01h45 UT.  Not as good as the display I got in 1993 with 19 Perseids in 1
hour, with the shower peaking as dawn broke.  The radiant just rises here
before dawn, so last night I got my 5 while the radiant was still well below
the horizon.  

The rates here are hardly anything to write home about, but with such long
paths (>120° in 1993 and 90° last night) and long durations they are most
exciting to watch.  

Best Wishes
Tim

At 10:14 PM 8/10/96 +0200, you wrote:
>At 19:29 10-08-96 GMT, you wrote:
>>Hi Guys
>>
>>If the weather is a wipe-out in Europe, and a bit iffy in the US, you are
>>all welcome to come round to my place here in the south of Africa.  Weather
>>prospects look like being 100% clear, and glad to say our snow is a thing of
>>the past.  We won't see 200/hour, but the show is worth a look just out of
>>interest. Air-fares for your account.  Any takers?
>>
>>Sorry to rub salt in your wounds.
>>
>>Tim
>>
>
>Thank you Tim! We are touched by you feeling with us in our desperaty. But,
>are we mistaking, or is the Perseid radiant barely visible from your latitudes?
>
>Things have become even worse here. At least three fronts are lingering
>around at our vicinity. With vicinity defined as having a cross section of
>about 2000 miles. Fronts occupy Europe from Iceland (latitude 67 degrees N)
>to southern Spain (latitude 37 degrees north) at this moment! The three main
>fronts meet approximately above the British Channel-Netherlands-Germany
>area. Indeed, Europe will suffer a total wipe out. No need to rub salt into
>our wounds: we're dead already....
>
>Marco Langbroek
>Casper ter Kuile
>Dutch Meteor Society, depressive center
>
>PS: At this moment, we are mentally about in the same stage as those 100 nm
>large little critters (Martian stink bugs...) in ALH 84001...
>
>PS2: serious: keep an eye open if possible near 5h UT, august 12!!!!
>
>PS3: good luck to all our colleagues who have more luck than we do at
>present. And this is sincerely. We don't want you to experience what we are
>experiencing at this moment. This is hell in Europe. We just regret that we
>were not born on the Canary Islands. Or that we had taken another hobby as a
>little child, like playing chess or singing in a church choir.
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