(meteorobs) Foreshortened Meteors (Was: Re: July 29 Observations)

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• From: "Jennifer (& Gregg) Lobdell" <jenlobdell@halcyon.com> (via Lew Gramer)
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 98 16:41:25 -0400
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I have seen several meteors that I would call foreshortened, the most memorable 
of which was on the peak Perseid night, August 1993 (or maybe '92). During a 
break from observing, several of us were standing around talking. Directly from 
the direction of the Perseid radiant we saw a meteor, duration was less than 
half a second. The path can only be describe as a very tight curl, perhaps 10 
to 15 arcminutes in diameter. The curl was about a turn and a quarter, (450 
degrees). Several of us saw it, and collectively we decided the only 
explanation was that it was a Perseid meteor coming directly at us, with a 
small perturbation that made it appear to curl. I wish I'd been recording at 
the time, but then I'd probably not been looking in the right direction to 
notice it.

Gregg Lobdell
gml@halcyon.com



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