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(meteorobs) Fireball Rates
It is said in the Meteor Observers Handbook about Fireball rates that they
have preferred periods where most are seen....Namely around the Vernal
Equinox and in the early evening for the Northern Hemisphere. I was
wondering if this is in reference to sporadics only...or is this a broad
statement that includes the various major meteor showers such as the
Perseids, Quadrantids, Leonids and the Geminids that don't occur near the
Vernal Equinox? Or does this refer to only the meteorite dropping fireballs
that are sporadics and asteroidal? It mentions that Rendtel and Knofel proved
that the rates for visual and photographic fireballs are about three times
the rates seen around the autumnal equionox....again, is this in reference to
the slow moving asteroidal sporadic fireballs, or does this include the
faster shower related cometary fireballs?
George Zay