Leonids 2001

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Leonids 2001

Post by tilvi » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:17 pm

Dr Nemiroff sent me this FITS file, containing an earthgrazers, which is also the logo of NSL main page.
Here is the FITS file.
http://phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/mk011118ut101257.fits

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Do we have or anyone knows about any report of this earthgrazer?
Because this looks like an airplane track. But I found at one place which gives kind of cross check for this earthgrazer. A message on yahoo groups.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/message/21139

is any written material avilabale on this earthgrazer?
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Post by lior » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:32 pm

As far as I know, this one was seen by the people at MK as it was crossing the sky.

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Post by RJN » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:32 am

Tilvi,
Yes, for this one we received email from people who saw it. IF I recall correctly, one person reported that it took about 6 to 8 seconds to cross the sky. Also the US military picked it up somehow and contacted us about our data. There are therefore several indications that this is a real meteor.
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Re: Leonids 2001

Post by tilvi » Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:50 pm

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Just found some more information about this earthgrazer captured by MK CONCAM during Leonids 2001.
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/earthgrazer.jpg
Another research paper abstract on the same is here
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_o ... 80d0e1d3c4[/img]
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