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(meteorobs) Corrected Ursid Report - Typo
Greetings!
Sorry, but I also found a typo for my Ursid average magnitude, which was
only 3.8 magnitude.
While running around too much for the holidays and all, I got a bit careless.
Transcribing my tape when half asleep didn't help either, but thankfully I
made extensive comments on the tape, which revealed my errors.
Below is my final corrected report.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:51:21PM -0500, George Gliba [should have] wrote:
> Ammended Ursid Observations
> By George W. Gliba
> Dec. 21/22, 2002 - 23:00 to 24:00 UT
> Screech Owl Hill Observatory, Mountain Meadows
> West Virginia 385710N 0785544W
>
> After being perplexed by my fairly high Ursid rates, I went back over my
> tape recording and found that the brightest three Ursids were probably
> satellite glints that fooled me. I have never observed so early in the
> evening since my youth, before the days of [many] manmade satellites.
> Anyhow, I am usually good with the I.D. of any Iridium flares, [and glints,]
> but this time I was fooled.
> Sorry about the ammended report, which follows.
>
> So, there were only 6 Ursid meteors seen, with an average magnitude
> of 3.8.
>
> AMMENDED URSID TABLES
>
> Time (UT) LM Ursids Comments
> 23:00-23:05 6.2 0
> 23:05-23:10 6.2 0
> 23:10-23:15 6.4 1
> 23:15-23:20 6.5 2 both seen @23:20
> 23:20-23:25 6.5 1
> 23:25-23:30 6.5 0
> 23:30-23:35 6.5 0
> 23:35-23:40 6.4 0
> 23:40-23:45 6.3 1 moon rising
> 23:45-23:50 6.2 0
> 23:50-23:55 6.2 0
> 23:55-24:00 6.2 1
> ----------------------------------------------
> 23:00-24:00 6.3 6
>
>
> Magnitude Distribution
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ave. Total
> URS 0 0 1 0 4 1 3.8 6
> SPO 0 0 0 2 0 1 3.7 3
>
>
> [Happy Holidays!]
> . . /
> . / .
> * /.
> . ./ .
> * .
> GWG
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