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RE: FW: Possible April Fireballs - Keep an eye out

Stu, GeoZay and List

Oops! Should've read through it a little better before I forwarded it to
the list. Happens when you get a backlog after a few days...

Cheers,
Don Fougere
Cold Lake Alberta
"Land of Milk, Meteorites and Honey"
(780) 594-1438
meteorite@telusplanet.net


On Sunday, April 04, 1999 3:19 PM, GeoZay@aol.com [SMTP:GeoZay@aol.com] wrote:
> In a message dated 99-04-04 14:15:36 EDT, you write:
> 
> << 
>  Don't know about fireballs which "have no radiant", and the bit about 
> several 
>  of the meteors known to have fallen to the ground as meteorites is news to 
>  me!!!! But late every April there's a meteor shower called the Lyrids...?<<
> 
> Sounds a little suspicious to me to. But the Spring months are known for a 
> higher number of meteorite dropping fireballs from sporadic activity mainly 
> due to favorable circumstances of the antapex. Other than this, there doesn't 
> sound like anything special going on in reference to an unknown fireball type 
> radiant.
>  
>  >>The shower lasts from  the 19th to the 25th, the 21st is the night of the 
>  "peak". Lyrids are typically quite faint, but occasionally one will be 
> bright 
>  enough  to leave a trail in the sky. Lyrids are few and  far between, 
>  compared to the meteors of other showers, and the  statistics say that if 
> the 
>  sky is clear you'll probably have to wait  five minutes or so between 
>  shooting stars. That means more like *ten*,  here in the real world... :-)
>   >>
> 
> This years Lyrids will be peaking during the morning of April 22 at 16 hr UT. 
> The lyrids are typically quite faint with a population index of 2.9 with an 
> occasional fireball mixed in. The Lyrids have a peak ZHR of 15, so seeing 
> about 10 per hour would be about right. Not a barnstormer usually. 
> GeoZay
> 
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