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Can NEO passes cause meteor showers?
monty python
post Sep 9 2010, 08:32 AM
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Hello from Dubuque, Iowa USA.

Last night at about midnight (sept 7 to 8 2010) I was walking my dog for about a quarter hour. As a space enthusiast I would occasionally look up - and I saw 5 bright meteors over a 15 min. period. I walk the dog every night at this time so I knew that this was way more than average.

The next day I was listening to a radio station from Illinois and a caller said he saw a similar thing from southern Illinois.

I have checked some web sites about meteors and they don't seem to reveal any great show at this time of year so I wonder........

Was the passage of 2 asteroids (210RX30 and 210RF12) past earth within a day of this observation a coincidence?

Should we be be out watching the sky when Apophis passes?

Brian
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- monty python   Can NEO passes cause meteor showers?   Sep 9 2010, 08:32 AM
- - AndyG   Question #1: Did the bright meteors appear to come...   Sep 9 2010, 09:02 AM
|- - algorimancer   I would speculate that, if an asteroid had been su...   Sep 10 2010, 03:22 PM
- - monty python   My guess for the radiant would be somewhere near c...   Sep 11 2010, 03:37 AM
- - algorimancer   Here's a fairly current database from a radio ...   Sep 12 2010, 12:19 AM
- - Antdoghalo   It might be possible for the Earths magnetic charg...   Oct 6 2010, 05:04 PM
- - nprev   I've seen this behavior on occasion myself whe...   Oct 7 2010, 12:35 AM

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