Re: (meteorobs) Apparent Velocity near Radiants

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Apparent Velocity near Radiants
• From: LUNRO.IMO.USA@prodigydot com (MR ROBERT D LUNSFORD)
• From: QLAC65A@prodigydot com
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:26:39, -0500
• Date: 19 Sep 96
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-- [ From: Robert Lunsford * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] --

Lew,  You Wrote:

> One of the (blizzard of) recent messages suggested that meteors close
to their
> "radiant" (i.e., shorter meteors) will always appear slow to very slow
(2 or 1
> on the NAMN scale, I guess).
> 
> I'm puzzled by this, as I've observed any number of short-path-length
meteors
> which were quite distinctly fast (4 on the NAMN scale), not to mention
> medium-speed (NAMN 3).
> 
> I certainly understand that meteors close to a radiant will appear
SLOWER than
> other meteors from that same stream, due to foreshortening... But why
do folks
> think that short meteors will never appear fast? Or am I
misinterpreting?
> 

The key word is SLOWER. If shower members have a speed of 5 far from the
radiant the speed closer in will usually be one notch lower but
certainly not any lower than a 4. There are definitely many fast, short
meteors.

Bob

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