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Re: (meteorobs) Astronomy magazine's coverage of the 2001 Leonids
I too was employed by JPL for 33 years and like B Yen, I certainly question their
professionalism
B Yen (via Lew Gramer) wrote:
> Robert Lunsford wrote:
>
> > To add one more error:
> >
> > >"The storm, if it does occur, will result from Earth passing through
> > > streams of locally dense meteoric debris during the early hours of
> > > November 18. The two streams were deposited along the orbit of the
> > > parent comet Swift-Tuttle in 1699 and 1866."
> >
> > Wrong comet!!! Swift-Tuttle is the parent of the Perseid meteors. The
> > parent comet of the Leonids is Temple-Tuttle. This article is a bad joke
> > and it will be sad if anyone is misled by the inaccuracies it contains.
> > Now you know why I canceled my subscription to Astronomy Magazine. Nice
> > pictures but lousy information.
>
> If you look at S&T's meteor coverage of the '99 Geminids, you will ALSO find
> some erroneous information on viewing, which would mislead observers. The
> observers would miss some spectacular meteors, which I DID observe during the
> '99 Geminids. See:
>
> http://www.comet-track.com/meteor/geminids98/geminids98.html
>
> I would also like to point out that Robert McNaught pointed out TWO CONSECUTIVE
> years, where S&T misquoted or misinterpreted Leonids predictions, for their
> Leonids articles... which were authored by yourself [Joe Rao].
>
> Having been a member of Jet Propulsion Lab, & seeing their lack of
> professionalism, I am REALLY beginning to wonder about the so-called
> space-science community.
>
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