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Re: (meteorobs) Perseids during eclipse?
In a message dated 8/7/99 12:37:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
72632.1427@compuserve.com writes:
<< Are there possibilities of witnessing a Perseid meteor during eclipse
totality on August 11? >>
There is certainly a "chance" that a bright Perseid could streak by during
totality, although certainly the chances would accentuated if the eclipse
coincided with the maximum of the display instead of occurring 36 hours
earlier.
The only documented case that I know of a meteor being sighted during
totality was during the March 7, 1970 eclipse. A person by the name of
Thomas Hamilton saw one flash by during totality in North Carolina (from the
May 1970 Sky & Telescope).
-- joe rao
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