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More Camelopardalids: Persistent Trains and that Satellite Fuel Dump Cloud
A Camelopardalids meteor captured t
at Jebel Al Jais mountain near Dubai on the morning of May 24, 2014. Credit and copyright: Justin Ng.
The first ever Camelopardalids Meteor Shower ended up being more of a drizzle than a shower, said astrophotographer John Chumack. “The new shower had very few meteors per hour, I estimated about 8 to 12 per hour, most were faint, but it did produce a few bright ones, as seen captured by my Meteor Video Camera network at my backyard observatory in Dayton Ohio.”
The above image is by Justin Ng who went to Jebel Al Jais mountain near Dubai to capture the meteor shower.
As our own Bob King reported the morning after — with several images and apt descriptions of the shower — the peak activity seem to occur around 2:00am to 4:00am EST (0700 to 900 UT).
There was a lot of buzz about a weird gigantic persistent train that occurred early on (about 1 am EST) and it ended up being a cameo appearance by the Advanced Land Observation Satellite a new Japanese mapping satellite, and a fuel dump from a booster stage of the satellite’s launch vehicle. Read more about it at Bob’s article, and see some images of it below.
Also, see a great video capture of a persistent train, shot by astrophotographer Gavin Heffernan:
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