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Re: (meteorobs) Persistent meteor trains
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Persistent meteor trains
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:29:17 -0400
I saw a 46 minute train. It was just a sporadic that came from "no where".
It was at 0027 UT with a ~-18 magnitude! I will never forget that bolide.
Jonathan
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From: "Roberto G." <md6648@mclinkdot it>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: R: (meteorobs) Persistent meteor trains
> >From: <ataju@emaildot si>
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:03 PM
> >Subject: (meteorobs) Persistent meteor trains
> >
>
> >Hi!
> >
> > I was just wondering (it's a stupid question really, but what the heck...):
> >how long did your longest persistent meteor train ever last and what meteor
> >produced it. Subquestion: if it wasn't a Leonid, repeat the upper question
> >for a Leonid.
> >
> > Oh yeah: mine lasted just over 22 minutes, produced by a -8m Leonid (Nov
> > 18, 2001 12:36:35UT, Mt.Lemmon, AZ).
> >
> >Clear skies!
> >
> >Jure A.
>
> Too for me was a Leonid of 2001 (-4 -6a ?), it persisted for some minutes,
> it is
> the only persistent trail with colours that I saw, it was large around 1/2
> Moon
> (1/4°), it took a form of a snake and before of its end it do 180° from
> original
> direction, I saw really it move in the sky, I read many time in old
> chronicles of
> snakes or dracos of the sky and I thought all time that in the past men
> drunk
> many, but they wrote exact!
> Roberto Gorelli
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