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(meteorobs) Re: Jure A.'s fireballs
I find a really interesting discrepancy in the proportion of fireballs. From my vantage point in Southern Oregon, there were essentially NONE around the peak time! I was still trying to estimate every magnitude, so maybe I was screwing up a bit and calling a -3 a -1. I just finished my magnitude distributions and found appreciable "boundaries" at some magnitudes, indicating that I was having a little bit of trouble (who wasn't?). Even then, there certainly weren't long periods of a fireball a minute. Magnitude distributions might be a good place to search for fine structure when all the reports get in.
In 5 hours Teff, 0800-1344UT Nov. 18 with LMavg~6.7,: 2128 Leonids and 80 non-Leonids.
LEO -6(1) -5(1) -4(5) -3(5) -2(8) -1(19) 0(105) 1(330) 2(712) 3(727) 4(190) 5(25) M=2.23
SPO -1(1) 0(1) 1(1) 2(14) 3(41) 4(21) 5(1) M=3.00
Minute by minute report to follow sometime fairly soon.
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Wes Stone
Chiloquin, OR
On Sun, 25 November 2001, JureAtanackov@emaildot si wrote:
> after 10 UT I was pleasantly surprised to find them still going up. By 1015 UT
> there were 30/min. By now I'd quit estimating magnitudes. Unlike what Norman
> McLeod reported for a similar rate back in 1966, the Leonids were coming in
> groups with voids of a couple of seconds in between. Fireballs up to -6m were
> appearing in the order of up to 1 per minute.
> In a total of 5.5hrs teff I'd seed an amazing total of 4110 Leonids, 11
> Taurids and 64 sporadics. No less than 186 Leonids were fireballs, with the
> following distribution: -8(4) -7(5) -6(11) -5(23) -4(57) -3(86).
> Jure A.
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