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Re: (meteorobs) Evening meteors from the zenith
There's nothing to prevent this description from being a meteor, it accounts
well for what one might see in the early part of the evening, namely, slower
moving meteors. I've seen the occasional 4+ second meteor at this time of
the evening, and the "skipping" mentioned sounds like, perhaps, the flaring
you'd get as a meteor moves from dense to thinner spots in the atmosphere,
especially given that the object was seen to move in a straight line. Just
my two cents.
Kim Youmans
----- Original Message -----
From: David Stine <dstine@exposquare.com>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:00 AM
Subject: RE: (meteorobs) Evening meteors from the zenith
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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