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Re: (meteorobs) Coma Berenicid Meteors Seen!
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:30:24PM +0200, Jan Verfl wrote:
> Hi,
> it could be pretty much difficult to make any radiant-like
> assumptions form 3 single meteors, but your data are interesting.. Do
> you have some plottings or so?
>
> Jan
> Verfl
Only three meteors is scant evidence for sure, but three slow meteors being
chance alignments is not likely in a nine minute period of time either. I
didn't plot, I just traced the trails I saw backwards and kept track of them
in my head, which was easy to do with just three meteors. The radial dis-
tribution of the candidate meteors also helped to get a provisional radiant.
One meteor going nearly due south of Denebola ruled out the 192 RA position,
but as you implied, not much can yet be assumed from only three meteors. The
accuracy of my provisional radiant would be only fair at best.
GWG
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