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Re: (meteorobs) Polar Spacecraft Images Support Theory of Interplanetary Snowbal
At 29 May 1997 21:30:12, -0500 Robert Lunsford asked Sirko:
>Thank you for posting this very interesting article. I have one question
>regarding the visibility fo these objects: would they be detectable at
>night from the surface in the visual range of the spectrum and could
>they be related to the "nebulous meteors" (large, diffuse) that many
>observers (myself included) have occasionally reported.
I too have seen these nebulous meteors, but they are rare, perhaps one in 100.
I report them as 'trail like train' objects. They often look like a snowball
hitting a glass window at a glancing angle (for lack of another analogy), and
when they have color it is slightly green. Maybe, as Bob suggests, they are
the larger of these objects.
GWG