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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cometary and Asteroid Missions _ Comet 209P/LINEAR meteor shower.

Posted by: MahFL May 24 2014, 06:58 AM

Just saw one bright slow moving meteor fairly low in the sky. Location is NE Florida. It moved SE to NW though which is the opposite direction they are supposed to be coming from.

03:55 One more viewed, this time from Pole Star through Cassiopeia.

Posted by: FOV May 24 2014, 03:49 PM

Observed 1:30 to 3:30 (yup, went home early) from S. Ontario. 5 meteors spotted. One at 1:45 moving east to south west, east of Cass looked blue in colour . Meteor at 2:00 out of east may have been true Camelopardalid.

Posted by: monty python May 26 2014, 05:55 AM

in iowa i watched half an hour and saw nothing under clear skys. On line I saw an estimate of 5 to 10 per hour at max. hardely worth looking at.

Posted by: JohnVV May 27 2014, 06:14 AM

for any interested there is a NAIF spice orbit for the comet here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ZYAd08tZL-SlhFVHJXcFhKdkE/edit?usp=sharing
A drop in add on for celestia

some screenshots here on this thread
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=578#p12344

Posted by: peter59 Jun 1 2014, 07:06 AM

Arecibo Observatory Sees Comet 209P/LINEAR
http://www.usra.edu/news/pr/2014/comet209PLINEAR/

For two months we will see another comet in more details.