Hello to all, At Kim Youman's suggestion, I am throwing this out there for all the world's meteor folks to take a gander at/for. I realize this radiant is obscure, little-known and probably barely, if at all, active; but as amateur scientists, we must ALWAYS keep both an open mind AND an open eye. I have little in the way of additional info, except that the stated radiant position is probably good for about a week or so either side of 21/22 March. Nothing on radiant drift, either, except for the usual one or so degree daily eastward drift, nothing on north/south drift. I have the shower active until early April. With an apparent velocity this slow and no other radiant active near it, any possible activity should be easy to nail down. I thought it pertinent to mention this in lieu of the apparent increase in the March sporadic rate and the number of reported fireballs of late. Is any of this attributable to this radiant?? Can anyone shed any more light on this radiant? Regards to all, Paul in Sicily Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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- To: ksyo@pinelanddot net
- Subject: Possible March radiant
- From: theodora jones <trjones_99@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:20:53 -0800 (PST)
Hi Kim, I keep forgetting to mention to you a rather obscure but intriguing March radiant I got off an old meteor shower listing I used to have. I was wondering if you had seen this one listed anywhere. It is called the Camelopardalids and the radiant is RA 119 dec +68 and is noteworthy for having one of the slowest velocities of any "known" radiant: 6.8 kilometers per second! I used to watch for this one in past years but never did see any definite candidates. The reason I mention it is that recently another astronomy friend of mine in Florida saw a -15 fireball that he thinks may have come from this radiant! I thought you might want to keep this one in mind as you are analyzing your data/plots. At 6.8 kms, any potential Cam meteor seen would surely stand out like a sore thumb!! Could easily be mistaken for a reentry event, however. I believe this radiant is active into early April and perhaps is more of a bright meteor/fireball type radiant then a regular hourly producer. Anyway, could one or two of these be hidden somewhere in that high sporadic rate?? Take care, Paolo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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