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Re: (meteorobs) Orionids from East GA
In a message dated 10/22/2003 5:40:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, ksyo@bellsouthdot net writes:
>>Well, whichever it was, it was a beauty! I had read somewhere
that fireballs didn't always follow the path- length/radiant rule. <<
True...the path lengths can be a little longer for fireballs....but a -6 isn't exactly in the class that I would expect any major increase of path lengths to occur.
>> 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.<<
This definitely eliminates it as being an Orionid.
GeoZay