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(meteorobs) Re: one casual June Bootid



Saturday night 1998 June 28/29 Joan and I arrived home before midnight from
our monthly hearts game.  I let the dogs out the back, and went out myself
to look for a minute.  Within seconds there was an intense orange slow  -2m
meteor with slight fragmenting, lasting 2 seconds.  It was close to, and
parallel to, the line determined by Spica and Arcturus.  Checking a chart
last night, it looks like a definite June Bootid.

Had I known something was going on, I could have watched a while longer.
Meteorobs let us down at a most inopportune time, as mail checking a  couple
of times during the day had no mail incoming.  The sky was smoky and hazy
from all the fires around Florida, limiting the sky Sat night to about +1 or
+2 in the best spots.  Better than a complete cloudout for a major shower.

This was quite a lengthy unexpected event lasting a full day, it sounds
like.  Most of the surprises seem to last only an hour or less.  

Norman