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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Fireballs
>Even more misleading, Ed, that -4 cutoff for "fireballs"
>is not even universally recognized! I was trained to call
>anything that was mag -3 or brighter a fireball...
>
>I sure agree - and we've talked about it on this forum in
>the past - that there is some pretty loose nomenclature
>in
>use, when people talk about meteorites and bright
>meteors.
The value change, I think, between the associations.
I think a good first step was that the main associations
that follows meteors as a field of study should obtain a
uniform classification.
Paulo
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