Re: (meteorobs) Perseids

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Perseids
• From: Lew Gramer <lewkaren@tiacdot net>
• Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:23:56 -0400
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At 06:32 AM 8/12/97 +0000, you wrote:
>the meteors seemed to move quite a bit between 2-3 am edt, 
>but did not see anykind of increase after 4:00 am as predicted, but 
>then again, it did clear shortly after the spectacular event.
>
>Kim Hay

Sounds like you saw a pretty bright fireball, Kim! Were you able to make
any sort of magnitude estimate on it, through the clouds?

As for the peak of activity you saw around 2:00 EDT, that's actually in
very (surprisingly!) close agreement with the predicted maximum time!

Clear skies,
Lew

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