Richtig! Die Leoniden!
Geschrieben von Mischel am 09. April 2002 09:29:50:
Als Antwort auf: wenn schon Funken, dann richtig geschrieben von franz_liszt am 08. April 2002 20:42:27:
>weil es dafür historische Beispiele gibt! Es gab Meteoritenschauer, wo >hunderte Schnuppen GLEICHZEITIG zu sehen waren und zehntausende niedergingen. >Licht vorzustellen, dass mel eine Wolke dabei ist, bei der die Partikelgröße >ewas größer ist. Gar nicht unwahrscheinlich.
Der letzte große Ausbruch war 1966 in den USA zu sehen
Muß mal noch ein Bild suchen davon. Hier eins von 1833....
Hier Augenzeugenberichte von 1966:
From: Alan Duniven, Venus, Texas
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:18:42 -0600
I was a witness to the spectacular meteor storm of November 1966 after my grandfather called our home around 5am. My dad, mother, and at least two other brothers and I witnessed the spectacular event from the Texas Panhandle, near McLean. We apparently came out at about the peak time as approximately 50 meteors per second were radiating from one area of the sky at a very high angle. It appeared much like a sparkler from the 4th of July except there was a small vacant hole from which they radiated out. Most were small with an occasional stray larger streak which did not appear from the same area. I tried again, hoping for a repeat this November 1998 but was disappointed by seeing only a couple at different times of the early morning hours. The 1966 display is one I will always remember and am very thankful my grandfather took the time to let us know.
From: Carl Kirkhuff (Blujan45@aol.com)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:40:15 EST
I was fourteen then, carrying the morning news in Rockville, MD. Looking slightly southwest of zenith, I was frozen for about 30 minutes, watching an alien fireworks display. Today I would call it a micro-burst shower as the sparks generated from within a 30 degree area and shot in random directions within and just beyond that area. I hope this counts as I've always wondered what I'd seen.
Carl Kirkhuff Wichita, KS
From: Mike Strong, Austin, TX (mstrong@vignette.com)
Date: Mon Nov 16 13:52:27 1998
Little Boy With Dropped Jaw...
I was ten years old... sound asleep in my bedroom back in Northeast Texas (Carthage) when something woke me, I belive around 2:30 AM. I don't remember what it was. I looked out my window and thought I saw something odd. I slipped out of bed and walked out our back door. I just stood in awe, slowly turning around and around to take in the whole dome of the heavens above me. The sky was a massive shower of meteors in every direction. I stayed spell bound for what must have been an hour. Finally, my neck began to hurt too much, and my kid attention span began to wear thin.
I remember describing enthusiastically to my family that there were"thousands of non-stop cat scratches covering the entire sky." As most kids do, I received the classic, "That's nice, dear" response. I think that they thought I just dreamed it. Later I wondered if anyone in the world would believe that I saw what I saw. It gave me great pleasure to finally find out the facts about it and hear that it was on the way back! To bad it will be day time in our part of the world during the peak shower time.Well, I'm very blessed that I at least accidentally witnessed once that truly rare moment that only occurs for two hours every thirty three years and is one of the great wonders of our world.
From: Bill Keel, Astronomer
Place: University of Alabama
I was a 9-year-old proto-astronomer in Nashville, and my father (a newspaper editor who apparently had gotten word of a possible meteor display) hustled me out of bed at 3 am to see the shower (neither first nor last time I have frozen my tail staring into space). From some notes I made at the time, I saw nearly one meteor per second for much of the hour or two we watched. A few sketches I did then show exploding bolides, acurved trail, and one meteor breaking into three parts. True what they say about meteor storms - nothing else like them anywhere! Judging from the paucity of reports from the eastern U.S., we were in one of the few sizeable holes in cloud cover that morning.
My older son is 9 this year, so a repeat performance would fit right in!
Bill Keel
Astronomy, University of Alabama
From: GRHarper@aol.com
I was a mere 13 years of age at the time and was up before sunrise to work my paper route.
I did not now what was going on but I was astounded by the number and brightness of all these meteors. Even as the eastern sky brightened, streaks could be clearly seen.