Comments on: Meteor Activity Outlook for June 23-29, 2012

By: Andrew Wong

Andrew Wong — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:56:13 +0000

Saw a bright white and green meteor traveled from SSE to NNW on June 29th, 2012 Friday at 11:30 a.m. in Marina (W121 degrees 47′ 3.84″), California. It made a cracking sound before it turned bright light green (The length of it traveled was about 1/7 of the sky). Also there was a twin propeller plane traveling opposite direction about 2 to 3 degrees off. Imagine the pilots probably could see it, too.

By: amsadmin

amsadmin — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:04:26 +0000

Jeff,

Interesting observations! You must have amazing perception. It would be interesting to see the rates you get closer to dawn when the rates are usually higher.

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

By: Geoff Horner

Geoff Horner — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:54:56 +0000

Hi,
I just thought I’d share that I’ve seen a surprisingly good number of meteors in the last week or so. I live in St. George, Utah, USA, and keep up to date on your site. Sure there’s little light pollution here, but there have been nights where I’ve seen “short-term” rates of 30/hr (5-10 meteors in 10 minutes, sometimes occurring in short bursts), mostly in the 11pm to 1am time frame. My view has been overhead to SW, and the radiant appears to be overhead (meteors seen in SW quadrant, radiating from overhead to NE(?), ie, moving in directions ranging from S to W). They’re mostly white and relatively bright, slow to medium speed. My best guess is they could belong to the JBO, FOB or possibly the ANT showers, but based on predicted rates, the rates I’m seeing are surprising! Just thought I’d let you know…
Geoff