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(meteorobs) Draconids finished??? - report 15:10UT
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Message text written by INTERNET:meteorobs@latrade.com
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The story so far: (Oct 8, 1998)
11:30 UT - normal background
(have no data yet from the time between 11:30 and 13:20)
13:20 UT - Beginning shower
13:40 UT - shower peak (similar to the Geminids peak)
14:00 UT - shower decline
14:10 UT - low rates (similar to the Ursids)
14:30 UT - lower rates, just some Draconids left
15:00 UT - normal background,
15:10 UT - normal background, maybe only a few Draconids still there....
(From Radio monitoring VHF TV-carriers at 53.760 and 62.250 Mhz, in various
directions).
Werfried Kuneth, Austria 13 37' E, 46 45' N
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Werfried and all,
Possibly passage through a ribbon of dust? or "debris belt"? More to
come?
Am recording in Santa Fe New Mexico but afflicted by periodic tropo
episodes. Fireballs penetrate the tropo though.
Thomas Ashcraft
35.41 N 105.57 W