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(meteorobs) Leonid MAC Workshop
Dear amateur observers in California,
I would like to invite you to visit NASA/Ames Research Center next
week and participate in the Leonid MAC Workshop. You can find the
agenda and abstracts at
http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/workshops/
You are free to drop by for a short visit, but please do let me know
in advance, because I need to prepare permission for you to access
NASA/Ames. You can then go to the main entrance of NASA/Ames at the
end of Moffett Boulevard (follow Highway 101, exit "Moffett Field")
and pick up a badge at the badging office at the gate. You then continue
on to the conference building. There will be signs that guide you.
There was also a request circulated to keep an eye on the sky this
coming Saturday. The message is below.
Regards,
Peter Jenniskens
>Dear Meteor Fanatics:
>
>This Saturday April 10 at approximately 4 pm Central Daylight Time, NASA
>astronomers will launch a weather balloon designed to capture meteoroids
>flying through the stratosphere. The flight is similar in concept to the
>one which flew in November 1998 during the Leonids meteor shower. Unlike
>that mission, which sampled the stratosphere during an intense meteor
>shower, this one is intended to collect samples at a time when the meteor
>flux is particularly low. In other words, this flight will establish a
>control sample for comparison with the 1998 Leonids flight. It will also
>test new technology for a flight planned during the upcoming 1999 Leonids
>shower.
>
>WE NEED YOUR HELP. Star Trailers can contibute to this research by
>counting meteors between 6pm and 10 pm local time on the evening of the
>balloon flight and reporting their results back to the NASA Star Trails
>Society. The astronomers involved in this project are keenly interested in
>comparing visual meteor counts with the number of meteoroid candidates
>captured during the flight.
>
>Please contact me if you would like to participate in the needed meteor
>counting.
>
>Regards,
>Tony Phillips
> phillips@spacesciences.com
..........................................................................
Peter Jenniskens
The SETI Institute e-mail: peter@max.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center tel: (650) 604-3086
Mail Stop 239-4 fax: (650) 604-1088
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
http://www-space.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/
e-mail (attachments): pjenniskens@mail.arc.nasa.gov
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