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(meteorobs) Possible activity on July 17?
I was going through some old emails here. I came through a note posted by
John Holtz last year about meteor activity seen on July 17th. It seems he
is the only observer to have reported a short duration meteor outburst.
With the moon causing only slight interference this coming weekend, it
might be a good idea keep an eye out just in case? We never know...
Is any activity theoretically possible from the 1997BR asteroid for this
year? How close do we expect the orbits to intersect each other?
Pierre
John Holtz wrote on 7/18/98:
>Just as twilight was ending last night (around 2h UT, July 18), and shortly
>after seeing a nice Iridium flare, one observer yelled out that he just saw
>two short meteors "back to back" heading south. Someone else chimed in that
>they had seen a similar meteor, again heading south, just a minute
>earlier. We
>all looked up and couldn't believe what we were witnessing.
>
>Starting at about 9:50 pm EDT July 17 (1:50 UT July 18), there was an
>unexpected "shower" of meteors! The rate started out at 1 or 2 per minute,
>but
>then tapered down and virtually died out by 10:15 pm EDT. The meteor streaks
>were very short, only 1 or 2 degrees long. The magnitude was around 2. The
>trails faded out immediately. The meteors may have been concentrated around
>the Big Dipper, Draco, Bootes, and Hercules area. All of them were heading
>due south, so we couldn't determine a likely radiant.
>
>As far as we know, there is no known shower for this date. We speculated that
>it may have been the tail end of a rare daytime shower. Did anyone else see
>these? Anyone have any ideas?
>
>John Holtz
>JWHoltz@aol.com<<
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