[meteorite-list] Draconid Meteor Outburst Underway

2012-10-08 Thread Ron Baalke
Space Weather News for Oct. 8, 2012 http://spaceweather.com METEOR OUTBURST: Radars in Canada are reporting a major outburst of Draconid meteors commencing at 16 UT on Oct. 8th. "Radar rates are at 1000 meteors per hour," says Bill Cooke of NASA' Meteoroid Environment Office. "This is greater

[meteorite-list] Draconid Meteor Outburst

2011-10-04 Thread Ron Baalke
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04oct_draconids/ Draconid Meteor Outburst NASA Science News Oct. 4, 2011: On October 8th Earth is going to plow through a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, and the result could be an outburst of Draconid meteors. "We'