So what happened with the May Camelopardalids? It was a new shower, so nobody knew what to expect, but anticipated meteor rates were on the order of 0-200 meteors per hour. Visual observers reported rates near 15 meteors per hour. Very few May Camelopardalid meteors were seen with the naked eye, but many were observed with meteor radar. As it turns out, the meteoroid stream was rich in small meteoroids that produced faint meteors, making them hard to see but easy to detect with radar. If you missed the May Camelopardalids, here is one bright one we detected from Pennsylvania the night of the peak.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 20:49:44 +0000
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