Re: (meteorobs) Lyrid fireball?

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• Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:49:40 +00200 (MET DST)
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Hi Ed,

The Lyrids in general can produce nice meteors on occasion, during the maximum 
of 1995 we had two -5 fireballs in one night (one of which we filmed with our 
image intensified video-camera, the first night we had that camera running!).

Given the lack of further trajectory details, the fireball you mention perhaps 
could also be a member of the wide Virginid complex, however.

- Marco Langbroek



Quoting Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu>:

> Someone in Austin, Texas, saw a very bright fireball at 
> about 5:15 on April 16 UTC:
> 
> "I saw the most fantastic meteor! The meteor was at least 
> as big as my fist and brilliant orange. It streaked across 
> the sky like a giant bottle rocket for about three seconds 
> from east to west in the northern sky."
> 
> The Lyrid radiant was up, low in the east.  Are the early 
> Lyrids known for fireballs such as that?


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