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Re: (meteorobs) Perseid & Leonid clouds
Jure,
I cannot enlighten you as to the dust cloud seen during high activity. I
can tell you though I read somewhere that during the height of the 1966
Leonid display the average distance between Leonid particles was a
staggering 15 miles. This would seem to indicate that satellites are
fairly safe in orbit even during the most intense displays.
Bob Lunsford
exceld77 wrote:
>
> Several hours before the great Leonid storm, people saw a faint glow in the constellation of Leo. This was the light being scattered from the meteoroid cloud which later produced the storm. Several days ago I read about a similar cloud seen before the Perseid outburst of 1992 ( the text actually say that the cloud was quite bright, between +3 and +4 magnitude!!). There are probably good chances of such a cloud being seen this year with Leonids.
> Have such clouds been observed on any other occasions? (Leonids 1998??) And what is the approximate number of particles per cubic meter (kilometer??).
>
> Clear skies!!
>
> Jure A.
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