Re: (meteorobs) Leonids - colors?

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonids - colors?
• From: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com>
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:15:39 -0500
• Cc: Malcolm Currie <mjc@jach.hawaiidot edu>, Lew Gramer (me) <dedalus@dev.latrade.com>
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Ed Majden wrote:
>In answer to Michael's question about color, I believe that one could
>possibly say that the green color at the beginning of the trail might be
>related to the forbidden line of atomic oxygen at 5577A.  This green line
>forms higher than the main part of the trail and may be what is seen first.

Interestingly, Ed, the only three (3) times I have ever recorded a meteor
HEAD color change with any certainty, the meteor began some higher-energy
color (bluish-white or green) and ENDED with a very distinctive RED color!
(BTW, I believe one of these "chameleon meteors" was jointly observed by
a fellow IMO recorder - Malcolm Currie, who I watched the 1999 Perseid peak
with on Mauna Kea.) Also interestingly, RED is normally quite rare for me!

Clear skies,
Lew Gramer

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• Re: (meteorobs) Leonids - colors?
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• Re: (meteorobs) Leonids - colors?
• From: "Ed Majden" <epmajden@home.com>

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