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(meteorobs) Re; Meteor shower/meteorite shower.
From my professional sources re the term, "meteorite shower" I hope
this clears things up.
Ed
>
> This is just literary licence. It would typically be called a meteorite
> fall. It is no different than St-Robert or Tagish Lake, but these are not
> meteorite "showers", just meteorite falls.
>
I asked:
> In the press the Chicago fall has been referred to as a "meteorite
> shower". Is this acceptable terminology for such an event and has it been
> adopted as such, by the I.A.U. nomenclature committee? This has caused
some
> discussion on the meteorobs newsgroup. I have noted that some
professional
> papers have used this term to describe the Mocs and Pultusk falls. Is
this
> just literary licence? Am I correct to assume that these multiple
meteorite
> falls are a result of the meteoroid breaking up in the upper atmosphere?
> Has there ever been a record of a multiple meteoroid entry prior to
entering
> the earth's atmosphere? I guess one cannot rule this out after watching
> Shoemaker/Levy 9 enter the atmosphere of Jupiter. Back in the early part
of
> the last century, C.A. Chant reported on a "procession of fireballs"
> crossing the Prairies going east. Was this a break-up event or was this a
> multiple entry, same orbit entry?
>
> Ed Majden
> Courtenay, B.C.
> http://members.shawdot ca/epmajden/index.htm
>
>
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