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RE: (meteorobs) Re: Leo 2001 coverage in S&T 3/2002



TO PUT IT BLUNTLY  COVERAGE IN SKY AND TELESCOPE OF LEONID METEOR STORM
SUCKED!!!!!!! THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE A COMPLETE SPECIAL ISSUE.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-meteorobs@atmob.org [mailto:owner-meteorobs@atmob.org]On
> Behalf Of Sirko Molau (via Lew Gramer)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: Meteor Observing Mailing List
> Cc: Sirko Molau
> Subject: (meteorobs) Re: Leo 2001 coverage in S&T 3/2002
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> >To: leo2001@yahoogroups.com
> >Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:52:04 +0100 (MET)
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> > Am I the only one unhappy with the coverage of the 2001 Leonid storms
> > in the new Sky & Telescope? Here is a letter I just sent them; as it
> > exceeds their 300 words limit, it'll probably not make it into the
> > magazine in full, so here is a "preprint":
>
> I see this article not as the "final Leonid report" in Sky&Telescope.
> After all we have not even finished the visual analysis in IMO (Rainer
> and co are working hard on that), and the numbers are still changing
> significantly. So let's hope they will cover this topic in the future
> once again.
>
> Of course, you are right that you can't derive serious activity
> estimates from individual statements like "I saw 1.500 meteors".
>
> Cheers,
> Sirko
>
> PS: Together with Pete Gural and Osamu Okamura I'm currently working on a
> WGN paper which compares the strength of the American and Asian peak from
> data of identical video systems. Interestingly both peaks differ much
> stronger in the video than in the visual data (at least by a factor of
> three [in favor of Asia]), but we have not yet finished the analysis.
>
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