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Re: (meteorobs) meteor colors
>Hope that it's not too late to join this thread. One offbeat
>suggestion is that some of the colours of fireballs might be
>attributed to overload of the dark-adapted eye, in other words you see
>"spots" before your eyes. It might explain some of the divergence and
>peculiar colours of bright fireballs. To cite a personal example, a
>-9 fireball I saw during the 1973(?) Geminids had a distinct claret
>colour! My suspicion was that it was much brighter and I was seeing
>the colour of the spot and not the meteor.
Hi Malcolm, do you think the observed color in this case would be dependent
on the different perceptions of the observers as it seems many meteor colors
are, or might there be a predominate color in these cases?
Mark Davis
MeteorObs@charlestondot net