[meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.

[Steve Schoner]

Three meteors came from the same direction, in a 10 degree radiant from the "Seven Sisters" star cloud.   The flash that I caught from the corner of my eye was closer to the horizon, so I did not notice a streak or persistent trail.  None of the meteors I saw last night had persistent trails.   Just a very bright blue white streak.

Interesting to see such a flurry, 

Makes me wonder if there is a potentially big cometary meteor  stream headed our way.

Any meteor showers for Aug 8th?

Steve




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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:48:01 EDT
From: GeoZay at aol.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.
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Hi Steve...

>>Last night, at about  1 AM  here in Flagstaff,  I was going from my 
rental to my house and I  saw a flash on the horizon.   There were no clouds, and 
the sky was  perfectly clear, and I wondered what that flash was.  I looked 
up into the  sky, and then I saw three bright meteors, one after the other 
over the span of 2  seconds.<<

Just hunching here...but if there was a meteoric flash  on the horizon, 
that would mean it was very far away...maybe about 250 to 400  miles away? Then 
as you looked up you saw 3 bright meteors overhead. I'm  assuming that the 
3 meteors were coming from the same direction to each other.  Were they in 
alignment with where the flash was? It would seem to me that where  the flash 
making meteor entered the atmosphere, it would be at a different plane  to 
the earth than the 3 other meteors. I would think that they weren't related  
because of this at least. 

>>They were as bright as Jupiter, which  was high up, mid transit in the 
sky.   Blue white in color they left  no persistent train and were very fast, 
lasting maybe 1/2 th second duration,  traveling 10 to 15 degrees each.<<

Because the 3 meteors were very  fast, I'd think they were of cometary 
material.


>>I was quite  amazed, as it seemed for an instant that a great meteor 
storm was  brewing.   The initial flash that caused me to look up and the three  
after spanning maybe 4 seconds and to see 4 meteors...

I stayed out for  another half hour hoping... But nothing more...<<

I think the  meteor timing of what you saw were nothing more than a 
coincidence. Sometimes  this happens. 
GeoZay  


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