Meteor Section Reports 2010

Contents

• Meteor Shower Reports
• Fireball Reports
• International Meteor Conference
• Non-Meteoric Events
• Off-World Meteors

Details of recent meteor activity as observed by Section members and others are regularly reported, with additional meteor-related news, in the SPA’s Electronic News Bulletins, and sometimes also in the SPA’s online Forums. Occasionally, separate special reports are issued on this website as well. The links below provide direct access to such information from the current year.

Meteor Shower Reports:

• Quadrantids: ENB 283, ENB 280, Observing Forum.
• Lyrids: ENB 288, Observing Forum.
• Eta Aquarids: ENB 290.
• June daytime showers: ENB 293, ENB 292.
• June Boötids: ENB 295, ENB 292, ENB 291.
• Delta Aquarids & Alpha Capricornids: ENB 293.
• Perseids: Section Report, ENB 295, ENB 294, ENB 293, Observing Forum.
• Orionids: Section Report, Observing Forum.
• Possible meteors from Comet Hartley 2: Observing Forum.
• Leonids: Observing Forum.
• Geminids: Observing Forum.

Fireball Reports:

• January 16-17, northern Britain: ENB 281, Observing Forum.
• January 24-25, France, imaged: ENB 282.
• February 3-4, Ireland: ENB 282.
• February 12-13, northwest England/north Wales: ENB 283, Observing Forum.
• March 21-22, Channel Islands: ENB 285.
• April 6-7 to 9-10, British Isles: ENB 288, ENB 287.
• April 14, Midwestern USA, imaged: ENB 288, ENB 287.
• April 16-17, Britain & France: ENB 290, ENB 288, ENB 287.
• April 17-18 to 27-28, Britain: ENB 288, Observing Forum.
• May 14-15, Britain & Netherlands (imaged): ENB 291, ENB 290.
• June 5-6, S France (imaged): ENB 292.
• July 13-14, southern England & the Channel Islands: ENB 293.
• July 18-19, England & the Netherlands (imaged): ENB 293.
• August 4-5, south-central England: ENB 294.
• August 7-8, southern England: ENB 293.
• August 10-11, southern England: ENB 294, ENB 293.
• September 5-6, East Anglia (imaged): ENB 295, General Chat Forum.
• October 9-10, Ireland (imaged): General Chat Forum.
• October 11-12, Sussex (imaged): Observing Forum.
• October 20, daytime, NW Britain: Observing Forum.
• November 7-8, southern England: Observing Forum.
• November 11-12, over North Sea (imaged): Observing Forum.
• November 14-15 & 15-16, UK: Observing Forum.
• November 19, southern England, daylight: Observing Forum.
• November 28-29, western British Isles: Observing Forum.
• December 8-9, central Britain: Observing Forum.
• December 9-10, southeast England: Observing Forum.

International Meteor Conference:

• International Meteor Conference reports, Armagh, September 16-19: Special Report for the SPA, Forthcoming Meetings and Events Forum.

Non-Meteoric Events:

• January 1, New Year releases of sky-lanterns widely mistaken for meteors and fireballs, UK: ENB 280, General Chat Forum.
• April sky-lantern sightings, mistaken for meteors again, UK: ENB 287.
• Late July, “meteorite” at a cricket match, southern England: ENB 293.

Off-World Meteors:

• Meteoric impacts observed in Jupiter’s atmosphere, 2009 & 2010: ENB 291, Observing Forum.

Alastair McBeath