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(meteorobs) Auroras in WI Nov 19th?



I live in Racine, Wisconsin and was out at 4am Tuesday morning watching the 
meteor storm. I sat on my back deck and did see quite a few meteors with a 
peak about 4:30am. I was wondering if Auroras could be seen in our area that 
morning. I keep looking east-southeast and I swear there were pulses 
light(very faint).  Debbie


Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly






>From: owner-meteorobs-digest@atmob.org (meteorobs-digest)
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>To: meteorobs-digest@atmob.org
>Subject: meteorobs-digest V4 #1037
>Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:34:52 -0500 (EST)
>
>meteorobs-digest     Saturday, November 23 2002     Volume 04 : Number 1037
>
>
>
>(meteorobs) Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>Re: (meteorobs) Leonid Hype
>(meteorobs) "Correction" For Meteor Hunt Of Nov. 4-5, 2002!
>(meteorobs) 33-year period seems unclear to me
>(meteorobs) Plotting maps
>(meteorobs) Perseids in future
>(meteorobs) Space.com - 22 November 2002 Leonid Article
>Re: (meteorobs) Plotting maps
>(meteorobs) Leonid report despite weather.   Oregon USA
>(meteorobs) Re: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>(meteorobs) Underpublicized NASA news release
>Re: (meteorobs) Joe Rao's summation of the 2002 Leonids
>YOUR HEALTH 
>CARE........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 
>vfdxp
>Re: (meteorobs) Perseids in future
>(meteorobs) Re: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>(meteorobs) Leonid Observing Campaign 2002 (Part 1) VANMC
>(meteorobs) Leonid Observing Campaign 2002 (Part 2) VANMC
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:26:20 -0800 (PST)
>From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser@yahoo.com>
>Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>
>"Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright tail."
>
>
>"The entire episode lasted about EIGHT minutes, with
>three minutes of it captured on tape, before the
>unidentified flying object disappeared from view."
>
>- -- very curious...
>
>I would be very interested in knowing what the
>atmospheric conditions were at that time of day.
>Maybe there was a thin veil of ice crystals high aloft
>that formed a halo effect from a military aircraft
>with its approach lights turned on?  But, what about
>the "long, bright tail?"
>
>Would love to see the video...
>
>Bob V.
>
>- -----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Baalke [mailto:baalke@zagami.jpl.nasadot gov]
>Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 8:56 AM
>To: robert.verish@jpl.nasadot gov
>Subject: Fireball Spotted Over Norway?
>
>
>http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=442072
>
>
>'UFO' spotted over Asker
>Aftenpoften (Norway)
>November 22, 2002
>
>Helene Solberg glanced out her window on a dark wintry
>afternoon earlier this week and saw something she
>won't soon forget. Luckily, her family's video camera
>was close at hand.
>
>Solberg, who lives in a village with the same name in
>Asker, west of Oslo, first called her husband while
>marveling at the comet-like flying object that soared
>through the late afternoon sky.
>
>It was just after 2pm, when dusk already starts
>settling over southern Norway at this tiime of year,
>when Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright
>tail. She excitedly called her husband Stig Solberg,
>who reminded her that their video camera was lying on
>a table in the living room.
>Just the night before, the couple had tried to capture
>video of the Leonid meteor shower.
>
>Helene Solberg then grabbed the video camera and
>started shooting. The entire episode lasted about
>eight minutes, with three minutes of it captured on
>tape, before the unidentified flying object
>disappeared from view.
>
>"Can I explain what it was? Absolutely not," Stig
>Solheim told Aftenposten's Internet edition Thursday
>night after sharing the video.
>
>He said he determined that the comet-like object came
>out of the west and disappeared to the south. He also
>sent the video to the astrophysics department at the
>University of Oslo, where a professor thought the
>object MIGHT have been a plane.
>
>Solheim disagrees. "It absolutely did not look like a
>plane," he said.
>"When we look out the window in the other direction,
>we sometimes see planes. But we have never seen a
>plane in the direction where my wife was filming."
>- ------------- End of Original Message --------------
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:39:14 -0500
>From: "Wesley Stone" <wes_stone@lycos.com>
>Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonid Hype
>
>On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:39:00
>  Skywayinc wrote:
> >
> >You see what I mean folks?
> >Now that's A N G R Y !
> >-- joe rao
> >
>
>Well, I'd just like to strangle the first weatherman I can
>get my hands on right about now! :) (just kidding).
>
>As far as advertising hype, CNN on Monday morning quoted a
>rate of 6000/MINUTE!  When in doubt, go for the most
>outrageous number.  In 2001, the media reported that unlike
>most such events, the Leonids of that year seemed to live
>up to their billing.  Maybe they billed them more accurately.
>
>Unfortunately, I have no worthy data to report on this
>year's shower.  I left Southern Oregon (cloudy,
>chance of rain) for Northern California (reputedly clear to
>partly cloudy).  After two hours I finally hit a cloud break. I quickly saw 
>four bright Leonids at 9:50UT, then
>hit a devastating dry spell where the sky was relatively
>clear but no Leonids appeared for 10 minutes.  Then the
>sky closed up again.  I drove to another break, and saw
>five or six leonids in 7 minutes, then another dry spell
>despite LM of 5.3 in Orion.  It was mostly cloudy from 10:30
>to 11:10UT, which corresponds pretty well to the derived
>peak.  I saw 5 Leonids including one fireball while driving.
>My next stop was the best of the night. I saw 12 Leonids in
>five minutes 11:10-11:15UT with 30% obstruction and LM=5.4,
>including a -6 fireball with contrasting blue and red colors
>and a convoluted train.  That cloud break, too, would pass.
>I repeated the pattern northward, and grumbled the next day
>at the clear sky that arrived just a few hours late.
>
>- --
>Wes Stone
>Chiloquin, OR
>
>
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>
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:50:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: Mark Fox <unclefireballmtf@yahoo.com>
>Subject: (meteorobs) "Correction" For Meteor Hunt Of Nov. 4-5, 2002!
>
>November 22, 2002
>
>Greetings Meteor Enthusiasts!
>
>I am sorry to bother everyone with this e-mail, but
>since I was just working on some meteor reports during
>the past day, I discovered a blunder that I did catch
>in my Nov. 4/5 report until now.  It was true that I
>found my watch to be 30 sec. too slow for that hunt.
>But, instead of adding 30 sec. to all of the time I
>had recorded during the session, I idiotically
>subtracted it!  Thus, O N E minute needs to be added
>in order to obtain the correct time for that hunt...
>just for Nov. 4/5, 2002.
>
>I again apologize for the inconvenience this may cause
>for those meteor report archivists and analyzers who
>no doubt have enough to worry about!
>
>Long, glowing, and stony Geminids!
>
>Mark Fox
>Newaygo, MI USA
>Coordinates: 43 deg. 27' N, 85 deg. 49' W
>
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:44:00 +0100
>From: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=FCn?= <daniel_gruen@webdot de>
>Subject: (meteorobs) 33-year period seems unclear to me
>
>I have been wondering for a long time why there is this 33-year period (o=
>r -=20
>depending on Jupiter - even 66 or 99-year) between two Leonid storm cycle=
>s.
>The dust trails are at the same place (more or less) all the time - at le=
>ast=20
>for about two hundred years - and earth should be going through (nearly) =
>the=20
>same area every year.
>It's clear that earth often misses the dust trails due to several gravity=
>=20
>effects, but I can't find the connection between the passage of Temple-Tu=
>ttle=20
>and the return of the storm cycles.
>Probably I didn't get everything right, because it seems to be clear to m=
>ost=20
>people (at least I didn't ever hear anyone ask). Maybe you can help me ;-=
>)
>
>Daniel Gruen
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:13:13 +0100
>From: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?q?Gr=FCn?= <daniel_gruen@webdot de>
>Subject: (meteorobs) Plotting maps
>
>I'd really like to get started with plotting, and my first problem is to =
>get=20
>the right sky maps.
>I heard of the Brno maps being the IMO standart and finally found a sourc=
>e=20
>(http://www.uaidot it/sez_met/mappe.htm) to download them. What I have now, =
>are=20
>=2Egif files of all (?) 12 maps.
>If I just print them, they won't be in the "real" format. Is this a probl=
>em=20
>for those who insert the data into the computer? Would it be better to ge=
>t=20
>the real maps from somewhere (and what paper format are they in), and whe=
>re=20
>could I get them from (sending some money to IMO across the atlantic ocea=
>n to=20
>get 12 maps back across the atlantic ocean (I live in Germany) doesn't se=
>em=20
>to clever for me)?
>
>At least I've got time to practise after the Quadrantids have finished th=
>e=20
>(meteor-)active part of the year.
>
>Daniel Gruen
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:27:33 -0500
>From: KCStarguy@aol.com
>Subject: (meteorobs) Perseids in future
>
>I was pretty disgusted with the turnout of the Perseids on 3 nights. Low 
>turnout and very few bright ones at all. It is amazing how bad the Perseids 
>have been the last few years.
>
>I remember the Perseids were grand while watching up in new Hampshire and 
>in Rhode Island in the 60's and 70's
>
>
>
>
>
>Dr.Eric
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>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:18:34 -0800 (PST)
>From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser@yahoo.com>
>Subject: (meteorobs) Space.com - 22 November 2002 Leonid Article
>
>- ------------ Forward Message -------------
>
><http://space.com/spacewatch/leonids_fireball_021122.html>
>
>'Truly Spectacular' -
>View of Leonids and Northern Lights from NASA DC-8
>By Robert Roy Britt
>space.com
>22 November 2002
>
>A NASA-led team of researchers had the enviable
>position of an airplane from which to watch the 2002
>Leonid meteor shower. The show they witnessed was far
>more than expected.
>
>For a couple of hours Tuesday morning, Nov. 19,
>Northern Lights set the sky ablaze with color. These
>colorful curtains of light are generated by the
>interaction of charged solar particles with Earth's
>magnetic field.
>
>"It was incredible!" said George Varros.
>
>Two days before the celebrated peak of the Leonids, on
>Nov. 17, Varros and his colleagues saw a tremendous
>fireball. These explosively bright meteors are
>generated by relatively large bits of comet debris,
>perhaps the size of a pea or marble. They are the
>showcase scenes in the overall Leonids play.
>
>"From what I can tell, the meteor was actually several
>times the brightness of the Full Moon," said Varros,
>who developed the system used to track and image
>meteors from a NASA DC-8.
>
>The picture, which Varros prepared from a video
>capture and provided to SPACE.com today, was taken
>over the Atlantic Ocean while the researchers were en
>route to Spain. The mission, called Leonid MAC
>(Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign), was led by Peter
>Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center and the SETI
>Institute.
>
>This year, seasoned meteor observers lamented an
>overall lack of fireballs compared to recent Leonid
>events. Across the board, experienced skywatchers
>noted the lack of very bright shooting stars.
>
>Nonetheless, the 2002 version of the shower was
>thrilling for many first-time observers and even
>people who had watched the Leonids before.
>During a brief outburst over North America, several
>meteors streaked through the sky each minute.
>
>It was also stunning from on high.
>
>On Nov. 19 in Spain, the morning of the anticipated
>twin peaks, Varros, Jenniskens and the others barely
>got the DC-8 off the ground in time, under rainy
>conditions, to witness the first outburst over Europe
>and then head toward North America in hopes of
>watching the second flurry.
>
>"The climb out of the cloud deck was slow," Jenniskens
>said. "As soon as clouds cleared, we saw many Leonid
>meteors."
>
>Soon the first burst arrived.
>
>"The storm was sharp as expected, but also rich in
>faint meteors," Jenniskens wrote in an online mission
>journal. "Several persistent trains appeared one after
>the other."
>
>Jenniskens preliminary estimate of the European peak
>is an hourly rate of about 1,000 shooting stars.
>
>The DC-8 pressed on toward Canada, arriving just in
>time to witness the second rush of meteors. Jenniskens
>reports that this burst was brief, too, as observers
>on the ground also noted. It seemed to occur at 5:46
>a.m. EST (10:46 UT). The hourly rate, Jenniskens
>estimated, was about 1,400.
>
>An analysis from the ground, done by other observers,
>suggests the rates might have been higher. Based on
>input from dozens of meteor counters around the world,
>the International Meteor Organizations says the
>European peak produced an hourly rate of 2,350. The
>second peak over North American generated 2,660
>shooting stars per hour for a brief period.
>
>Estimates of the hourly rates will be massaged for
>days to come, however.
>
>Jenniskens recalled the double dose of spectacular
>skywatching he was privileged to see: "At the peak of
>the storm, the view was truly spectacular. A curtain
>of aurora over the northern horizon emitted pulsing
>waves of light into the s

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