(meteorobs) Alert! High activity from 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

[Steven Kolins]

On May 31, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Arlene Carol wrote:

> hi..
> can you please translate this into layman terms...and what about  
> over here
> in Turkey...
> where, when..ie...what time, what direction..
>
> what to expect?
>
> thanks..
> we have gorgeous clear skies today..hope it stays that way tonight.
>
> thanks again.

 From my untutored review - they have a 24hr review button under the  
blue graphs on the left. I clicked that and it showed a white graph  
(the blue one remains just the last hour) and there was a peak of 338  
meteors per hr at  about 9th hr (GMT?UMT?) from Tavistock UK. That  
peak has already fallen - but it proves we're in stricking range of  
more streams leaving the comet. I wonder how long ago this stream  
left? Days? and how do the various paths relate over the coming days?  
I think some people must be number crunching big time now!

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