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(meteorobs) Memorable meteors



My most memorable meteor experience is assoscitated with the 1998 Leonid
strom. It was at its request, letting the dog out at 2am and looking rathr
sleepily up at the sky to see a sight which instantly jerked me fully awake.
The sky was cloudy (which is why I had gone to bed) but points of light kept
appearing and dissapearing again all over the sky. I had never seen anything
in the sky like that before and for a few moments was mystified. Then I
realised it was the terminal bursts of Leonid meteors. I rapidly dressed and
drove off in the car in a futile search for clear skies. I turned back home
to be greeted by clearing skies and a bright greenish fireball as I rounded
the bend toward my house. Until the clouds returned half an hour later there
was the incredible display so widely reported.
Other memorable experiences include trapping my finger in a collapsing
recliner while watching the brilliant Perseid displays following the passage
of  Comet Temple-Tuttle. My observing colleagues eventually disengaged from
the meteor watch long enough to extricate my finger.
Other memorable items were a ghost Leonid meteor, a train without a bright
head, a reddish diffuse Geminid and a vividly green fireball I saw in
January this year returning from a meeting of our local astronomical society.
Nick
Nick Martin, Bonnyton House, By Ayr, Ayrshire KA6 7EW ,Scotland, UK.
 Latitude 55 24'56" Longitude 4 26' 00".


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