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Re: (meteorobs) Orionids from East GA
Marco,
Well, whichever it was, it was a beauty! I had read somewhere
that fireballs didn't always follow the path- length/radiant rule. This
meteor *was* very swift, not what I'd expect from a foreshortened,
near-radiant meteor. But the alignment with the Orionid radiant was
remarkably dead-on.
Kim Y.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoodot nl>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Orionids from East GA
> .
> > 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.
>
> In other words: this was not an Orionid.
>
> We had something similar here in 1994. A fireball that seemed to come from
> the Orionid radiant as seen by one of our observers from Leiden. But it
was
> also captured multistation by two all-sky camera's. The triangulated
radiant
> proved to be well off from the Orionid radiant, it only happened that for
> Leiden the two radiants and the apparant fireball trajectory lined up.
>
> - Marco
>
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> 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)
>
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