(meteorobs) Re: Gary Kronk Comets and Meteors shower site offline

[Bias, Peter V]

You rock, Gary! 
Let me be the first to say that we all deeply appreciate your efforts.
 
Pete Bias

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	From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org on behalf of kronk at cometography.com 
	Sent: Tue 4/17/2007 8:23 AM 
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	Subject: RE: (meteorobs) Re: Gary Kronk Comets and Meteors shower site offline
	
	

	To everyone,
	
	The American Meteor Society first began hosting my "Comets and Meteor
	Showers" web site somewhere around a decade ago. Prior to that it was
	hosted on a university server that I was using at my place of
	employment, but university policy changed around 1998 and the AMS
	basically came to my rescue. During 2001, I decided to greatly upgrade
	the comet portion of the web site and felt I needed to move those files
	to a new server; thus, cometography.com was born and was named after my
	book series. All comet links on my "Comets and Meteor Showers" site
	were subsequently changed to point to the cometography site.
	
	Last summer, I decided to create a meteor shower web site that was
	written almost exclusively for the beginner. I bought the web address
	of meteorshowersonline.com and successfully "advertised" it on my
	Cometography and "Comets and Meteor Showers" sites.
	
	This February, due to reasons beyond the control of the AMS, the server
	hosting their web sites and e-mail went down for three weeks. After two
	weeks, I decided I had to do something...mainly because of the loss of
	e-mail. In the process, I decided to move the entire meteor shower
	calendar to the meteorshowersonline site.
	
	So, meteorshowersonline is now a conglomeration of text written for the
	beginner and the text that was published in my 1988 book. I hope to get
	the site properly sorted out in a couple of months, but am currently
	facing a deadline for the next volume of Cometography. As Ed mentioned,
	I will be including new minor radiants that have been announced and
	already have a couple of these included that were not in my 1988 book.
	I have basically been scouring meteorobs for this material, but if
	anyone has been keeping track of new radiants reported since the
	mid-1990s, I would love to see a list!
	
	Sincerely,
	Gary
	
	
	> -------- Original Message --------
	> Subject: (meteorobs)  Re: Gary Kronk Comets and Meteors shower site off
	> line
	> From: Ed Cannon <ecannon at mail.utexas.edu>
	> Date: Tue, April 17, 2007 1:56 am
	> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
	>
	> These seem to be Gary Kronk's new web meteor shower and comet domains:
	> http://meteorshowersonline.com/ http://cometography.com/ On his meteor
	> shower calendar, there's this statement: "New discoveries of minor
	> meteor radiants are included." Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA ---
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