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Old 25-08-2009, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by hotspur View Post

It is certainly unusual,the tail trail is slightly wiggly.

Hi Chris

A "wiggly" tail is typical of a meteor. When out observing and I see a bright meteor I quickly move the scope around to where the meteor shot through to see if I can see the smoke trail left behind and when I can it is typically a spirally structure. Sometimes you can watch it for tens of seconds before it dissipates with the high winds, but these have to be really bright bolide types.

It's freakish timing
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