Lyrid maximum was covered with videoobservations quite poorly because of clouds. Still, during the maximum night there was ~2 hours period of clear sky...
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Thomas Ashcraft
ashcraft@...
May 3, 2010 1:04 am
Last night I captured a slightly interesting meteor. It was almost a point source flash that I might have considered to be a satellite flare but the radio...
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James Beauchamp
ok113cmdr@...
May 3, 2010 2:55 am
Nice, Tom. Just curious, how many total hits do you get - approximate average? I'm seeing them start about an hour after local midnight and last until...
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Thomas Ashcraft
ashcraft@...
May 3, 2010 3:15 am
... Hi James, Well, I am not keeping counts of individual meteors these days but am mostly concentrating on capturing significant fireballs. Activity has been...
Thanks, Tom. I'm getting, on average, one of these every couple of nights, and WISH I had a camera setup. Very curious what they look like. This was a...
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MEM
mstreman53@...
May 3, 2010 5:17 pm
AHhhh! They do exist! I've always been told that a flash or "point meteor" is one of perspective. In this case the observer is staring up the barrel of a...
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Ed Majden
epmajden@...
May 3, 2010 11:22 pm
I just received this sad news from Peter Brown. I did not know Dr. ReVelle but was familiar with his work, reading about it, when he was at NRCC experimenting...
May 4, 2010 There was a fireball this morning that the local Albuquerque tv news is inquiring about. It happened at 5:13 am MDT. Any witnesses or captures? ...
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Robert Lunsford
lunro.imo.usa@...
May 4, 2010 7:00 pm
Thomas and All, The AMS has received two reports of this object so far. Summaries of these reports may be viewed on the 2010 AMS fireball table at: ...
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David Oesper
oesper@...
May 5, 2010 8:01 am
3 Apr 2010 0300-0500 UT (CDT 2 Apr 10:00 p.m. - Midnight) David Oesper S of Alpine, TX 30 16 50.3 N, 103 35 15.0 W, ~5250 ft. Method: Visual, digital voice...
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Richard Taibi
rjtaibi@...
May 5, 2010 8:14 pm
David, Good work on 4/3. But, don't believe that little data is 'almost not worth reporting.' An old dictum I was taught is that even NO meteors is data. It...
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David Oesper
oesper@...
May 6, 2010 2:14 am
3 May 2010 0354-0554 UT (CDT 2 May 10:54 p.m. - 3 May 12:54 a.m.) David Oesper S of Alpine, TX 30 16 50.3 N, 103 35 15.0 W, ~5250 ft. Method: Visual, digital...
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ykchia
chiayk1@...
May 6, 2010 3:25 pm
Hi folks: Just posted eta aquarid video still images with lunar interference in FOV this morning active after 3:am onwards till dawn. ...
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drtanuki
drtanuki@...
May 6, 2010 4:05 pm
Dear List, Hot off of the wire: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/05/argentina-large-fireball-6may2010-just.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo ...
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Pierre Martin
pmartin@...
May 6, 2010 4:40 pm
Was out for about an hour this morning, and saw a small handful of Eta Aquarids, towards dawn. I never see much of this shower with the low radiant from 45...
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countdeiro@...
May 6, 2010 7:30 pm
... It was visible over several hundred square miles. This area has a lot of nice flat accessible farm land and beaucoup people, so if it were larger and...
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Richard Taibi
rjtaibi@...
May 7, 2010 12:42 am
Last Quarter moonlight and horizon obstructions affected the observation this morning at Bel Alton, Maryland. The sky was quite transparent, cloudless, and...
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Robert Lunsford
lunro.imo.usa@...
May 7, 2010 2:48 am
May is a fairly slow month for meteor activity. The Eta Aquariids are very active the first two weeks of the month then fade as the month progresses. The only...
First meteor was a nice, slow SPO just 4 minutes into the count that cruised N to S near the zenith. Blocked the moon as best as possible behind treeline. ...
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ykchia
chiayk1@...
May 7, 2010 4:04 pm
Hi folks: May 7 eta aquarids result is event more interesting. I had five eta aquarids with negative magnitude over the 5-6am window. ( or UT may6 21-22h ). A...
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Bruce McCurdy
bmccurdy@...
May 7, 2010 4:23 pm
For at least the third time this decade we in central Alberta have had snow dumping a considerable damper on Cinco de Mayo. To a meteor observer like me the...
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Pat
pat_branch@...
May 7, 2010 4:50 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100507/sc_space/spacerockhuntersfindlargestchunkyetofexplodedwisconsinmeteor Congrats to my Alma Mater for recovering a good...
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George Gliba
gliba@...
May 7, 2010 5:28 pm
Pat, This new WI meteorite Fall is a nice breccia. Here is a picture of a cut 12 gram stone. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/DSCF4380.jpg ...
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Impactika@...
May 8, 2010 1:30 am
Quick reminder: As of January 1, 2008, No meteorite, new fall, old fall, newly found,...etc, may be exported from Argentina. Just ask Eduardo for details. Anne...
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Eduardo
info@...
May 8, 2010 1:31 am
Hi Actually the law refers to NEW finds and falls, so any meteorite find or found before December 2007 can be exported (with a few exceptions like Campo del...
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brodwcjj@...
May 8, 2010 4:05 am
It's on the internet! it must be true! According to http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93650?fp=1 <quote> Light show Halley's Comet may only be viewable from earth...
