[meteorite-list] Perseid report from HI

[tracy latimer]

Aloha!
My internal alarm clock woke me at 3:45, so I went outside for 20 minutes to 
see if the Perseids were as active as predicted.  During that 20 or so 
minutes, I collected 3 mosquito bites and saw 8 Perseids.  No bolides, just 
some respectable shooting stars, one leaving a slight smoke train (without 
twisting). The quadrant of the sky I could see from behind our garage, which 
blocked out the street light, had a nice view of Andromeda down to Taurus 
with half of Perseus, so I can say definitively they were all from the 
Perseid radiant.  Nowhere near as memorable as the Leonid swarm of a couple 
years back, nice nonetheless, but I'm glad I didn't make elaborate 
preparations to stay out all night.

Tracy Latimer

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