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Re: (meteorobs) Interaction with Leonid dust trails in 1971?
One should take into account, however, that the period of the late '60s and early '70s were pre-SALT and the Soviets under Brezhnev were at the peak of their military build-ups and propaganda campaigns, in large part to try recover from their humiliation after the Cuban Missile Crisis. So, any unverified "record-breaking" reports from Soviet bloc observers during this period should be taken with a grain of salt...
Mike
--- Skywayinc@aol.com wrote:
> What the Soviets reported, however, was a
> significantly stronger display
> about 10-11 hours earlier . . . and another strong
> surge of activity two
> mornings later.
>
> This unusual bevy of Leonids was also briefly
> cited in the IMOs "Handbook
> For Visual Meteor Observations" edited by Paul
> Roggemans (1989 Sky Publishing
> Corp.). On page 163, for 1971 November 17, an
> hourly rate of 90 is
> attributed to "USSR Smirnov."
>
> -- joe rao
>
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