Re: (meteorobs) Leonids Peak in NJ

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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonids Peak in NJ
From: Lew Gramer <dedalus>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 12:00:09 -0500
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Interesting the differences in our different peak and lull times, Wayne... Seems 
like the LEOs must have some mighty fine structural variations for a distance of 
a few hundred miles to make such a difference! I guess limiting magnitude and 
perception might also be coming into play, as I definitely saw more faint LEOs 
than you did. Are you still running your comparison analysis on each report?

By the way, thanks to Franklin Miller for clearing up a question I ALSO had 
about pre-perihelion near-comet rates! Only thing is that this information makes 
MUCH more complex the picture I had in my mind (mostly from reading the IMO 
publications) of how stream orbits deform: Now instead of just imagining 
particles "settling down" from the cometary orbit into a less eccentric 
elliptical orbit, I find myself having to imagine a hyperbola or eccentric 
ellipse which is deformed NON-continuously into a lower ellipse... x^*

Can ANYBODY really visualize how this process looks?! :(

Lew

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(meteorobs) Leonids Peak in NJ

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