Re: (meteorobs) Changes in meteor color (was Re: WILL WE SEE GEM FIREBALLS TONIGHT?)

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Changes in meteor color (was Re: WILL WE SEE GEM FIREBALLS TONIGHT?)
• From: "Malcolm J. Currie" <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:30:47 -1000 (HST)
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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Lew Gramer wrote:
> Hans, I've seen only a very few meteors which had striking color changes in
> mid-flight: the most striking in RECENT memory was a Perseid which began the
> usual (for me) pale green, and ended with an UNDENIABLY RED (very unusual) long
> terminal brightening. Even more memorable, the last 3 degrees of the persistent
> TRAIN actually showed red for nearly a full second afterward! Malcolm, did you
> also log this meteor during our session up on Mauna Kea?

Sorry Lew, I can't help you; I don't record the colours.  I stick with
the main data.  Had you asked a few days after I might have recalled
the event.  

You amazed me with all the salmon and green +4 meteors you were seeing.  
(-:  I'll take the faint LM over better colour vision.

Malcolm

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• (meteorobs) Changes in meteor color (was Re: WILL WE SEE GEM FIREBALLS TONIGHT?)
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