Hi Ron, >From what I have read in descriptions so far, it would actually seem to me that this was one bright fireball apparition, not a meteor shower. The report about colored streaks of light actually is not clear as to whether observers saw multiple meteors, or that it concerns multiple descriptions of one and the same meteor from different localities. The other newsitems seem to suggest one large meteor. Also the 'restricted' geographical nature of where the event has been reported suggests this. Happening at 10 p.m. for California, this meteor shower -if it was such- should have been visible and reported from all over nightime USA, not just California.
- Marco Langbroek / Dutch Meteor Society PS: my experience is that a bright fireball apparition seen from many locations quite quickly becomes a 'meteor shower' in the press - especially when there is also fragmentation involved. ---------- Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek "What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?" William Shakespeare The Tempest act I scene 2 ---------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
