Re: (meteorobs) Meteor Size?

To: meteorobs@latrade.com
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteor Size?
From: GeoZay@aol.com
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:28:15 EDT
Reply-To: meteorobs@latrade.com
Sender: owner-meteorobs

In a message dated 98-10-11 22:25:20 EDT, you write:

<< marcia<< 
  My familiy and I are having a "discussion" concerning the size of an average
  meteor.  
  
  For some reason I have it in my mind that the average size of a meteor is
the
  size of a grain of sand.  Son and Husband are telling me they must be at
least
  the size of a football or thereabouts.
   >>
 
 GeoZay>>Marcia,
 In the IMO handbook, it has a 0 magnitude cometary meteor for the eta
aquarids or Orionids with a mass of about 1 gram and dimensions around 2
centimeters. An average meteor to me would be about +2 in magnitude. So the
particle making this would be smaller. As Lukic shown in an earlier post, that
should be something about the size of a pea.<<

Oh....that would be a "Californian pea".  :o)
George