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Re: (meteorobs) Lynx activity Jan 04?

Hello Mike,

> I did observe 2 Lynx meteors, during my session, one at 0540 UT and one
> at 0930 UT. I posted this information in my QUA report, too. I am very
> confident they were from a radiant around 08h-09h and +55°, as opposed
> to being just sporadics. Their path length to radiant ratio was around
> 0.5, and the 2 paths intersected around the location I just specified.
> One was mag 2, the other mag 1, and both were of medium velocity.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone else saw any activity from this apparent
> radiant?

how can you be 'very confident' that these were not sporadic meteors?
Even if they match perfectly a radiant they still could be pure chance
alignments, especially since you are talking about just _two_ meteors
within several hours of observation.

Did you plot the meteors? That would be the only way to seriously
combine your observation with others and do further investigations. 
Still, five or six plotted meteors are the _absolute_ minimum to really
suspect a radiant, everything below that is just sporadic noise. 
Rainer Arlt once did some interesting computer simulations: He
'generated' meteors completely randomly and showed, how easy you may get
'new radiants' from chance alignments of two or three of those.

Best regards,
Sirko Molau

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