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RE: (meteorobs) Evening meteors from the zenith

David,
Could this have the space shuttle/ISS complex ??
Joseph

>From: "David Stine" <dstine@exposquare.com>
>Reply-To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
>Subject: RE: (meteorobs) Evening meteors from the zenith
>Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:00:05 -0500
>
>Last night around 9:30p.m., my grandson and I were out changing cars,
>when both of us saw this white slow moving object which had to be a
>meteor, but it was different in that it would slowly glide through the
>northern sky with a pronounced head and a broken white trail behind it.
>It seemed to skip.  It went from NW to NE at about 40 degrees in a
>straight line.  I felt it was also very close but it did burn out in the
>NE eventually.  It took approximately 4 seconds to move across the sky,
>which is a very slow meteor if that was what it was.  Did anyone else
>happen to see this last night.  It was mg. 0, maybe a little brighter.
>
>David Stine
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Cannon [mailto:ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:40 AM
>To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>Subject: (meteorobs) Evening meteors from the zenith
>
>In the last couple of weeks, most evenings that I've been
>out watching satellites, there have been two and sometimes
>even three casually observed meteors going straight down
>from somewhere near the zenith.  Last night there was one
>about zero magnitude that went down in the northeast.
>This seems just a bit unusual.  I'm at 30 north latitude.
>Most of the time I've been in the suburbs, not a dark-sky
>site.  Our zenith in the evening (e.g. 10:00 p.m. local
>time, or 3:00 UTC) is at the junction of Bootes, Canes
>Venatici, and Coma Berenices.  An hour later it's in
>Bootes.
>
>Thank you very much to Mike Linnolt for his very helpful
>reply to the question several days ago about the "best
>place (in Texas)" to observe the Perseids!
>
>Ed Cannon - ecannon @ mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
>
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