In Jari's case, given the date the kappa Cygnids are a good option. These are very slow and often bright: this is a known fireball shower. It would match his reported direction of movement. In Roberts' case this stream is not a likely candidate (radiant at that moment very low in the north). An iota Aquarid: possible, but this stream produces rather faint meteors, unlike its better known July predecessor the delta Aquarids. HOWEVER: a meteor should be discernable from a satellite, as even the slowest meteor moves evidently faster than a satellite. - Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> > Is it possible that this and the daytime flash reported earlier could be > meteoric in origin rather than satellites? > > I observed a bright streak at least mag -3 yesterday evening our time > briefly- I do not have exact timing but was around 1000Z I think on August > 20. > > As it was moving east to west a satellite seemed unlikely.so no mention of > it was made in here. > > My time is limited to check in detail on the possible shower which would be > more likely and I would be moving off topic anyway. I suspect possibly > Aquarids for mine but will not have a chance to do much checking for at > least 12 hours. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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