[meteorite-list] A meteor shower burst.

[Marco Langbroek]

>> 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

Steve, George:

This kind of thing can happen, I think, on rare occasions when a fragile 
meteoroid fragments just before it plunges into the atmosphere (or rather: at 
very high altitude in the atmosphere) and becomes a luminous meteor.

Back on 14 October 1993 I witnessed something very similar: 3 separate meteors, 
with clearly different directions but all intersecting back to the same radiant 
in Pegasus, that appeared within 1-2 seconds of each other. Not a single one 
from that radiant before or after that.

- Marco


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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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