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Re: (meteorobs) Bright Star Dairy
From Lloyd:
>I am still trying to find out if any meteors were seen over Penn., New Jersey
>or New York on July 17, 1996.
The date in which you are interested for bright meteors is the night of the
TWA800 downing. In case you have this incident in mind, I consider it fully
settled by James Sander's book documenting the whole thing as a missile gone
awry. No other explanation fits the facts, and the hard evidence is there
as well. The book should be available most everywhere by now, and it is
fascinating, as well as easy, reading.
I'm not sure if the AMS bright meteor diary (not bright stars) has been
compiled yet. Am just back from a fairly long vacation. Glad there's
nothing going on in the sky right now with the full moon, plus we are having
a big batch of African dust passing by. The sky is white, the sun sets as a
white sphere, and the moon has a bluish-white sheen for 30 degrees all
around it at night. We lose 2 to 3 magnitudes visibility, and the dust
batch usually takes 4 days to pass. From the Sahara it crosses the Atlantic
and Caribbean, often extending far enough north to cover Florida as well.
Our weather comes from the east during May to October as the easterlies
follow the sun. Very hot and droughty also ; 2 days ago we hit 97 with a
heat index of 110. Only a fool goes out for athletics then ; would be
better at the beach.
Norman
Norman W. McLeod III
Visual Program Coordinator
American Meteor Society
Fort Myers, Florida
nmcleod@peganet.com