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["CLEARSKIES@xxxxxxx" <DERRICK.LIM@xxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I observed the Geminids meteor shower tonight from 1:45am to 3:30am at the
Four Peaks rest area off highway 87. Overall it was a very nice display. There
were four of us, we saw a meteor every half a minute for an average ZHR of
about 120 over a period of about 30 minutes. Later, we did not observe really
seriously, but still saw a good number of meteors. One particularly bright one
(~mag -2) streaked from a point west of Orion's belt down towards the horizon
over approximately 30 degrees of the sky. I didn't see a trail left behind
though, but the moonlight was interfering this night. On another two
occassions, I saw two successive meteors originating from near the same point
in the sky south east of Cassiopeia (all four total were from this general
area). 

Derrick Lim
The Laboratory for Multi-Disciplinary Analysis and Design of Material-Wave
Interactions 
Department of Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Personal homepage: http://www.public.asu.edu/~antares
Lab homepage: http://ceaspub.eas.asu.edu/nivadellir


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