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Old 05-02-2006, 05:23 PM
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no worries Ian!, yes despite their name, NAMN are the most globally friendly of the lot, and they post all submitted fireball reports on meteorobs anyway.
I know what you mean about parochial fireball reporting sites tho, most seem focused only on local/national activity with either a view to recovery of meteorites for profit, or concerned with differentiating between missile attacks and fireballs, such as NORAD. Most seem concerned only with North American or northern European fireballs of course.
I am only aware of one aussie expert who is even vaguely interested in fireball reports and that would be Tony Beresford here in Adelaide, and Tony is mostly interested from a tracking and monitoring of space junk/decays, and re-entries, point of view, I believe, I could be wrong. But he monitors meteorobs anyway - so anything you post there, the relevent people will see it, even if they dont comment.
There is a yahoo mirror site to the main meteorobs one, if you didnt already know, it is easier to do searches and research i guess http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/
Yes the silence is deafening as usual from aussies/southerners in this field, although there are more people into radio meteorobs than visual, and there was a spate of people with low light wide angle all sky cameras (such as mintrons) recording/tracking/studying fireballs and meteors for a while there - even that seems to have died down a bit lately.
Hard to tell with aussies meteor observers as the majority (if they exist?) seem very quiet/shy/humble/lazy/timestrapped/secretive about there goings on, who knows what they do?. hehe
I'm not sure, but have I seen you post on meteorobs before Ian?, seems to ring a bell?
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