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(meteorobs) Orionids from East GA
Just a quick note that I was able to observe for two hours this morning
before being washed out by ground fog. Rates weren't terribly great under
near ideal sky conditions -- I haven't checked my star counts but I'm
guessing LM +6.3 or better.
However, I did see probably the brightest Orionid fireball of my life this
morning, a multicolored -6(?) that shot directly out of the radiant into
nearby Canis Major and did not conform to the path length/radius rule at
all -- it began right at the radiant and traveled only perhaps fifteen
degrees at most. It was a bright silvery blue with violet and orange mixed
in, no train to speak of but the very brief wake looked like a laser. The
meteor head seemed to slide down the wake getting bigger and brighter as
it went . It was quite a sight!
Only saw about thirty or so meteors in two hours, 5:47-7:47 UT; maybe half
of these were Orionids.
Hope to have my report in by later this evening.
Kim Youmans
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