Meteors in Orion
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I do not mean going out overnight for a known major shower and lying out on the deck chair. I mean having like a 1 degree or less field-of-view (
I have been observing regularly for about 18 months. If I can get three good nights in a row, I will go out one or more of them. Even last night - one clear night in a string of cloudy nights - I went out. If I do not have to work the next day (Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun), I will leave the telescope set up with a blanket over it and go out again at 3:00 AM if I feel like it. So, just to say, I get out to view; and in 18 months, just roughly, I have probably seen six meteor falls through my
(And just to note, with my F=660 mm and a standard 52-degree Ploessl 17mm ocular for 39X, I was at 1.34 degrees
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I saw them as well!!! I wasn;t sure if they were meteors or Satellitesmikemarotta wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:41 am 23 March 2021 at 2049 to 2050 Central Time, I was viewing the Belt and Sword of Orion when a meteor fell through my field of view. It happens. Then another... oh wow... then a third! Goodness gracious.
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Yeah, the same thing occured to me, as well, because there were three in a row, like a string of satellites. I like satellites, myself, but I never mind getting stopped by a train, either. But, these, to me, were orange, irregular (not points of light) and moving downward, not across. But I thought about what I perceived, also, and considered satellites.
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Some difference of opinion exists about the count of meteors.
Taking the upper figure (25*10^6) and Earth's surface area as 510 *10^6 SQ KM means that in any square 10 km on a side, five will enter your field through the course of any day.About 25 million meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere every day (duck!). Most burn up and about 1 million kilograms of dust per day settles to the Earth's surface.
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec18.html
Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids- ... /in-depth/
Next question: does anyone have a meteor?
(I have several. Pictures to follow.)
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I learned from numismatics that I am not a collector. A collector's passions are for (1) Completeness, (2) Condition, (3) Rarity, and (4) Value. If you want to collect meteorites, there are a five main classes: Iron, Stoney-Iron, and Stoney; and across those, Chondrites and Achondrites. As you can see, I stopped short...
But the Carbonaceous Chondrite intersects sets; and bearing carbon, as it does, speaks to the cosmological necessity of life.
Also a note about astronomy as imperialism: The Gibeon was found by white guys in 1836. Natives had been using its iron for untold millennia.
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