Posted on 08/12/2018 12:12:54 PM PDT by ETL
Lol! I knew at least one person would get it!
Sharp bunch we have here!
Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
I saw the 1986 shower travelling west over the continental divide in New Mexico. It made driving a bit more dangerous on I10. It’s really dark there and the looks very close
I saw the 1986 shower travelling west over the continental divide in New Mexico. It made driving a bit more dangerous on I10. It’s really dark there and the sky looks very close
I recall one especially incredible year for the November Leonids. It actually got scary. It felt like we were under missile fire. Long thick lingering greyish green smoke trails. An occasional bright orange fireball. It really seemed like we were being pelted with space rocks. Turned out the earth had passed through a particularly heavy climb of comet debris that year. I think they said it happens every 34 or so years.
Worse, it's a lip sync! ;^).
Was kind of a poor viewing year here in Colorado. Peak time was before sundown. Saw maybe 8 over 2 hours last night.
LOL!
I'd take a look at the sky, but suspect it will be like the last two or three things I've looked for (buncha planets, a green comet) -- overcast.
Interesting sidebar:
http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/papers/2016Icarusc.pdf
The age and the probable parent body of the daytime arietid meteor shower [in press]
Abedin Abedin, Paul Wiegert, Petr Pokorn, Peter Brown
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 3K7, Canada
Received 7 March 2016
Revised 10 August 2016
Accepted 14 August 2016
Icarus
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/icarus
Abstract: The daytime Arietid meteor shower is active from mid-May to late June and is amongst the strongest of the annual meteor showers, comparable in activity and duration to the Perseids and the Geminids. Due to the daytime nature of the shower, the Arietids have mostly been constrained by radar studies. The Arietids exhibit a long-debated discrepancy in the semi-major axis and the eccentricity of meteoroid orbits as measured by radar and optical surveys. Radar studies yield systematically lower values for the semi-major axis and eccentricity, where the origin of these discrepancies remain unclear... We find the most plausible scenario to be that the age and the formation mechanism of the Arietids is consistent with continuous cometary activity of 96P/Machholz over a time interval of ?12,000 years. The sun-skirting comet P/1999 J6 suggested by [Sekanina, Z., Chodas, P.W., 2005. Origin of the Marsden and Kracht Groups of Sunskirting 922 Comets. I. Association with Comet 96P/Machholz and Its Interplanetary Complex. ApJS 923 161, 551–586. doi:10.1086/497374.] may contribute to the shower, but the comet breakup prior to 950 CE they propose does not reproduce all the characteristics of the observed shower.
Same interesting sidebar, missed this part:
[snip] P/1999 J6 and 96P/Machholz, may have originated from a fragmentation of a single large body, prior to 950 AD (Sekanina and Chodas, 2005). The authors referred to that large parent as the first generation fragment, and deduced a few likely break-up epochs — 150 AD, 350 AD, 500 AD, 700 AD and 950 AD. [/snip]
http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/papers/2016Icarusc.pdf
I hear ya.
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