markem
01-07-2011, 12:29 PM
From spaceweather.com today
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/06jan11/hankey1_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=35csb2eeron4a0uadno6tfs 3c4
http://www.spaceweather.com/site_images/spacer.gif EXPLODING COMET FRAGMENTS: According to counts (http://www.imo.net/live/quadrantids2011/) from around the world, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaked during the early hours of Jan. 4th with nearly 100 shooting stars per hour. The source of the Quadrantids is shattered comet 2003 EH1. During the peak, Mike Hankey watched a fragment explode just above his home in Freeland, Maryland:
(http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/06jan11/hankey1_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=35csb2eeron4a0uadno6tfs 3c4)
"Here's a video of a Quadrantid fireball and the smoke trail it left behind," says Hankey. "It took 10 minutes for the trail to dissipate." The fireball itself produced a magnitude -9 flash, about ten times brighter than Venus.
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/06jan11/hankey1_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=35csb2eeron4a0uadno6tfs 3c4
http://www.spaceweather.com/site_images/spacer.gif EXPLODING COMET FRAGMENTS: According to counts (http://www.imo.net/live/quadrantids2011/) from around the world, the Quadrantid meteor shower peaked during the early hours of Jan. 4th with nearly 100 shooting stars per hour. The source of the Quadrantids is shattered comet 2003 EH1. During the peak, Mike Hankey watched a fragment explode just above his home in Freeland, Maryland:
(http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/06jan11/hankey1_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=35csb2eeron4a0uadno6tfs 3c4)
"Here's a video of a Quadrantid fireball and the smoke trail it left behind," says Hankey. "It took 10 minutes for the trail to dissipate." The fireball itself produced a magnitude -9 flash, about ten times brighter than Venus.