SPA Meteor Section results: October-December 2002

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Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005jimo...33...81m&link_type=abstract

WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, vol. 33, no. 3, p. 81-86

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Results and information from SPA Meteor Section data during October-December, 2002, are presented and discussed, excepting those from November during the Leonids, which were handled earlier. Leading the main events of the quarter was a widely-seen, magnitude -12/-15 fireball at 04h53m UT on October 5/6, which passed over west Belgium and northern France. The Draconid epoch in October may have produced some low rates, but this is not certain. The Orionids gave a relatively weak showing, with an ill-defined radio maximum around October 19-22. The radio results suggested the pre-maximum October 17/18 peak may have recurred. In December, a visual Geminid peak at circa 10h-11h UT on December 14 was found (solar longitude (eq. 2000.0) = 262.20-262.24 deg), with EZHRs approximately 200+-12, probably inflated by the moonlit sky. The radio data also supported a strong peak on this date, but possibly slightly later, between 11h-14h UT (solar longitude = 262.24-262.37 deg). Another fireball, of magnitude -4/-8, was reported from parts of central to southern England on December 17/18, at 16h51m +- 1m UT. Details on its probable trajectory over south-east England to the Channel off the Isle of Wight are given. No evidence was found supporting anything other than a normal, minor, Ursid return, despite a prediction of possibly enhanced activity for December 22.

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