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Meteor Activity Outlook for 30 November-06 December 2024
No matter where you live, the first half of December provides some of the best meteor activity of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere the sporadic rates are still strong plus you can also count on strong activity from the...
Read MoreNews from the Meteor Library: Earth Impactor 2022 WJ1
Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper: Telescope-to-Fireball Characterization of Earth Impactor 2022 WJ1 This article has been submitted by Theodore Kareta, Denis Vida, Marco Micheli,...
Read MoreNew meteor shower in Ursa Minor
by Damir Šegon, Denis Vida and Paul Roggemans Abstract: A new meteor shower on a Jupiter-family comet orbit (TJ = 2.34 ± 0.16) orbit has been detected during September 23–24 by the Global Meteor Network. Meteors belonging to the...
Read MoreMeteor Activity Outlook for 23-29 November 2024
During this period, the moon reaches its last quarter phase on Saturday November 23rd. At that time the half-illuminated moon will rise near 23:00 Local Standard Time (on the previous evening) and will remain above the horizon...
Read MoreMeteor Activity Outlook for 16-22 November 2024
During this period, the moon wanes from its full phase to one-half illuminated. It will rise in the evening sky and remain in the sky the remainder of the night. This is the worst time of the month to try and view meteor...
Read MoreShort note on P/2024 OC2 and the alpha Capricornid meteor shower
Abstract: The very remarkable similarity of the preliminary orbit of Near Earth Asteroid P/2024 OC2 and the alpha Capricornid meteor shower (CAP,#1) is outlined. Discussion Following a thread online started on November...
Read MoreMeteor Activity Outlook for 9-15 November 2024
During this period, the moon reaches its first quarter phase on Saturday November 9th. At that time the half-illuminated moon will set near 22:00 local standard time (LST) on Friday November 8th. As the week progresses, the...
Read MoreShort note on what appears to have been a 2024 outburst of epsilon-Ursae-Minorids (IAU#1044)
By: Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute), Carl Johannink (CAMS BeNeLux), Nick Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory), and Andy Howell (CAMS Florida) Abstract: A meteor outburst with a radiant in Ursa Minor was detected by low-light level...
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November issue of eMetN Meteor Journal online
Download eMetN Meteor Journal The online content of September – October 2024 has been edited...
Read MoreNews from the Meteor Library: delta-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream
Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper: Near-Earth Asteroids as the Parents of the delta-Cancrid Meteoroid Stream This article has been submitted by G. I. Kokhirova, M. Zhang, X.-G. Li,...
Read MoreNews from the Meteor Library: A survey of debris trails from short-period comets
Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper: A survey of debris trails from short-period comets This article has been submitted by William T. Reach, Michael S. Kelley and Mark V. Sykes....
Read MoreNews from the Meteor Library: CAMO-S: A meteor-tracking spectrograph
Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper: CAMO-S: A meteor-tracking spectrograph at the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory This article has been submitted by Michael J. Mazur, Margaret...
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November 2024
