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Re: (meteorobs) Lyrid fireball? - Another Lyrid FB ?
Hi all,
I was wondering about the Lyrids too - I actually saw a bright Fireball
while driving on Long Island (NY) . The first thing that came to my mind
was that it was a lyrid .
I saw it on the 14th of April (23:36 pm) which personally I think it was
a bit too early for it to be a Lyrid. The street lighting was quite
bright and I could only see the brightest stars . I estimate a magnitude
of around -6 (+/- 2 due to windshield , cars coming from the opposite
direction and street lighting - could'nt take an SLM of the area) and it
was clearly coming out from where the radiant is.
Clear Skies
Martin
At 12:42 PM 4/17/01 -0400, you wrote:
In a message dated 4/17/01 12:33:52
AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu writes:
<< 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." >>
Here is a comment from an old (1985) issue of "Astronomical
Calendar" by Guy
Ottewell. This is from the "Meteors" section (before it
was taken over by
Alastair McBeath):
April 15-30: "April Fireballs" -- an annual sparse
irregular shower of
bright meteors some of which reach Earth as meteorites. The radiant
is not
determined; they come from the region of the ecliptic and equator between
20h
and 24h (Capricornus, Aquarius, Pegasus, etc.).
To add to this, I myself also recall seeing a
reference to these type of
fireball meteors -- and an attempt to tie two shadow-casting/meteorite
dropping fireballs in April 1962 and 1969 together -- in (I believe) the
September 1970 Sky & Telescope and the April 1971 Natural History
magazines.
-- joe rao
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