I saw a couple meteors on Monday night. Is it part of the Orionids? Debbie
From: Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> Date: 2005/11/02 Wed AM 10:53:52 MST To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Meteors
Hi all, a woman called and said she and her husband saw two meteors last night around Point of the Moutnain. They were bright and went nearly to ground level. Anyone have any idea what this might be? Anyone else see anything? Thanks, Joe
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Speaking of meteors, Sunday night during the Mars Watch at SPOC a meteor passed through Orion and left a train that was easily visible to the naked eye for over 6 minutes. Anyone here see it from somewhere other than SPOC? Patrick
Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
Speaking of meteors, Sunday night during the Mars Watch at SPOC a meteor passed through Orion and left a train that was easily visible to the naked eye for over 6 minutes.
Would that be a freight train or passenger train? For some reason, I can't see you standing still for 6 minutes... ;)
Anyone here see it from somewhere other than SPOC?
I actually had about 6 catch my eye as I was driving back home Sunday night. Even on I-215 with all the light pollution these 6 caught my attention. I can't recall ever having that happen before.
--- astrodeb@charter.net wrote:
I saw a couple meteors on Monday night. Is it part of the Orionids? Debbie
My guess it is the southern and northern Taurid streams. - Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
Hi friends, here's an interesting item from NASA. I told the lady who called about the email comments and this article, and she suggested I write a short item. I think I will, because it's kind of interesting. Best wishes, Joe http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/03nov_taurids.htm PS -- If I pick up anything for my article from the newslist, I'll make sure to mention Cyn this time. I feel bad that I didn't mention her or where to find the archive last time, as she does such an amazing job for Utah astronomy.
Hi Joe We had a similar experience Sunday night from our Kaupo site. We had seen about a dozen sporatics but around 9 PM we saw a bolide that reached over 120 of sky coming from Taurus. It reminded me of what a 10" 4th of July firework looked like at launch. The track was straight but had small particles ablating from the meteor, brightness was even and estimated at mag -6. aloha Rob
--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Hi friends, here's an interesting item from NASA. I told the lady who called about the email comments and this article, and she suggested I write a short item. I think I will, because it's kind of interesting. Best wishes, Joe <snip>
The source of the Taurids is Comet 2P/Encke. Kronk's Page on Comet 2P/Encke http://cometography.com/pcomets/002p.html Wikipedia on Encke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke Last passage of Comet Encke was on: 0.26 AU from Earth on 2003 November 17 which probably explains why this year's Taurids have some good fireballs. NASA's Near Earth Object program has a simulation generator that renders illustrations of comet orbits by typing in the number, e.g. "2P" or "55P". http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/ Recall that in Nov. 2001, there was a particularly strong Leonid shower - pretty close to a storm - following the passage of it's parent comet, Comet 55P Temple-Tuttle. http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_18nov01_page2.html http://www.mreclipse.com/Meteors/Leo01/Stolovy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids - Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip all> P.S. - It's also instructive to use the NEO comet orbit simulator to compare the distances that the Earth is currently passing by the Comet Encke stream with the distance that the Earth will pass the Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle stream at the peak of the Leonids on Nov. 17. Unfortunately, the Leonids, like the Orionids last month, will occur one day after the full Moon. So the International Meteor Organization (IMO) is not even listing the Leonids on its observing calendar this year. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/ - C __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
Would this be referred to as a "Taurid affair"? ;) Doh! Quoting Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com>:
--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Hi friends, here's an interesting item from NASA. I told the lady who called about the email comments and this article, and she suggested I write a short item. I think I will, because it's kind of interesting. Best wishes, Joe <snip>
The source of the Taurids is Comet 2P/Encke.
Kronk's Page on Comet 2P/Encke http://cometography.com/pcomets/002p.html Wikipedia on Encke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke
Last passage of Comet Encke was on: 0.26 AU from Earth on 2003 November 17
which probably explains why this year's Taurids have some good fireballs.
NASA's Near Earth Object program has a simulation generator that renders illustrations of comet orbits by typing in the number, e.g. "2P" or "55P".
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/
Recall that in Nov. 2001, there was a particularly strong Leonid shower - pretty close to a storm - following the passage of it's parent comet, Comet 55P Temple-Tuttle. http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_18nov01_page2.html http://www.mreclipse.com/Meteors/Leo01/Stolovy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
- Canopus56(Kurt)
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Would this be referred to as a "Taurid affair"? ;) Doh!
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