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GEMINIDS 2009
This weekend, Earth passed through a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon. In 1983 Whipple identified Phaethon like the parent of Geminid meteor stream. But it has never displayed unambiguous cometary activity.The Geminids provide the most impressive ...
South African Fireball - November 21
After the Utah Fireball on Nov. 18, another bright fireball has been seen over South Africa aroud 11pm local time of Nov. 21, 2009. The meteor was spotted by dozens people as it passed over Johannesburg and Pretoria in Kauteng province on Saturday.Fo...
NOVA ERIDANI 2009 - Update
According to the Cbets 2053 & 2055 the transient in Eridanus has been spectroscopically confirmed as a nova.Spectra obtained on Nov. 26 by H. Maehara (Kyoto University) and by M. Fujii (Okayama) shows that the object seems likely to be an He/N-cl...
POSSIBLE NOVA IN ERIDANUS
Following the posting on the Central Bureau's unconfirmed-objects webpage & Cbet No. 2050 about the discovery by K. Itagaki (Yamagata, Japan) of a possible Nova in Eri we performed some follow-up of this object remotely through a 0.25-m, f/3,4 re...
Utah Fireball - 18 November 2009
On Nov. 18, just after midnight local time (MST) a great fireball was seen over parts of the western United StatesAccording to Spaceweather website witness in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho saw "remarkable midnight fireball that turned night into day. It wa...
Leonids 2009
According to preliminary counts from the International Meteor Organization (IMO) the Leonids meteors reached a ZHR(max) ~ 120/130 around 22UT of Nov. 17, as predicted by forecasters.The ZHR surge, witnessed by observers in Asia, occurred when Earth p...
