(meteorobs) Re: Daylight Showers & Fireballs

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• Subject: (meteorobs) Re: Daylight Showers & Fireballs
• From: LUNRO.IMO.USA@prodigy.com (MR ROBERT D LUNSFORD)
• Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:10:17, -0500
• Reply-To: meteorobs@latrade.com
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-- [ From: Robert Lunsford * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --

> Another QUESTION to the group:
> 
>     Have any of brighter members of the daytime meteor showers been
resolved
>   visually during a total solar eclipse.  We all seen reports of
daylight
>   fireballs NOT during eclipse.  I'm wondering if any bright
fireball/bolide
>   members of a known daytime radiant been verifiably recorded.
> 
>     Curious in San Diego, CA.
> 
Joseph,

I doubt very much that any daylight fireballs have been associated with
a known radiant. Also, I have never heard of a meteor been seen during a
total solar eclipse. I would imagine that most people (including myself)
are intently watching the corona and prominences and not considering
meteor observing at this time. The odds of a fireball occurring during a
total solar eclipse must be exceedingly small.

Bob 

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