North American Meteor Network

Recent Observations: August 2002

Below is a list of all observations received by the North American Meteor Network for the month of August 2002. In all, sixty-two observers sent in reports, with the Perseids receiving the most attention. Countries represented in this report include Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.

Observers participating and the countries where they observed from include Puya Ahmadifard, Iran; Ardalan Alizadeh, Iran; Karl Antier, France; Jure Atanackov, Slovenia; Javad Azizi, Iran; Lance Benner, USA; Mike Boschat, Canada; Dustin Brown, USA; Stefan Cikota, Croatia; Stefano Crivello, Italy; Malcolm Currie, UK; Denis Denissenko, Russia; Peter Detterline, USA; Eric Flescher, USA; George Gliba, USA; Rosely Gregio, Brazil; Daniel Gruen, Germany; Cathy Hall, Canada; Amir Hasanzadeh, Iran; Roberto Haver, Italy; Zoltan Hevesi, Hungary; Robert Hays, Jr., USA; Ken Hodonsky, USA; Dave Hostetter, USA; Tomislav Jurkic, Croatia; Javor Kac, Slovenia; Soheil Khoshbinfar, Iran; Marek Kozubal, Canada; Marco Langbroek, Netherlands; Mike Linnolt, USA; Robert Lunsford, USA; Alan MacRobert, USA;

Pierre Martin, Canada; Ashley Matous, USA; Bert Matous, USA; Norman McLeod, USA; Huan Meng, China; Thom Morgan, USA; Ali Moosazadeh, Iran; Arash Nabizadeh, Iran; Senka Pinteric, Croatia; Mazyar Seyyednezhad, Iran; Mohammad Reza Shafaroodee, Iran; Sergey Shanov, Russia; Brian Shulist, Canada; Enrico Stomeo, Italy; Wes Stone, USA; Nikola Strah, Croatia; David Swann, USA; Richard Taibi, USA; Nela Tomiae, Croatia; Josep Trigo-Rodriguez, Spain; Michel Vandeputte, Belgium and France; Daniel van Os, Netherlands; Arash Voghoee, Iran; Harry Waldron, USA; Bill Watson, USA; Fred Weber, USA; Mark Williams, USA; Robert Young, USA; Kim Youmans, USA; Jin Zhu, China.

One or more observers were out monitoring meteors on seventeen different nights during the month. In the end, a little more than 380 hours of observations were reported. Table A below contains a complete list of all observations. Table B provides a listing of the showers reported and the number observed. It also provides a key to the abbreviations used in Table A.

Our thanks go to all of the observers who made this an exciting month!!
Clear skies,
Mark Davis

Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA Coordinator, North American Meteor Network http://www.namnmeteors.org

TABLE A: OBSERVING SUMMARIES
August 1:
Bert Matous (Teff=1.50, 2 CAP, 2 NDA, 6 PER, 5 SDA, 14 SPO)
August 3:
Javor Kac (Teff=1.10, 2 CAP, 2 PER, 1 SDA, 11 SPO)
Bert Matous (Teff=1.66, 2 CAP, 1 NDA, 3 PER, 6 SDA, 10 SPO)
August 4:
Bert Matous (Teff=3.00, 1 CAP, 5 NDA, 6 PER, 3 SDA, 12 SPO)
Thom Morgan (Teff=1.95, 1 KCG, 8 PER, 1 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=3.50, 4 AQR, 18 PER, 25 SPO)
August 6:
Amir Hasanzadeh (Teff=1.84, 1 KCG, 5 PER, 8 SPO)
August 7:
Ken Hodonsky (Teff=1.98, 3 CAP, 2 NDA, 8 PER, 3 SDA, 24 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=4.50, 4 NDA, 27 PER, 7 SDA, 62 SPO)
Ali Moosazadeh (Teff=1.84, 1 NDA, 5 PER, 9 SPO)
Mazyar Seyyednezhad (Teff=1.84, 8 PER, 7 SPO)
August 8:
Peter Detterline (Teff=3.42, 24 PER, 27 SPO)
Daniel Gruen (Teff=2.00, 1 NDA, 6 PER, 12 SPO)
Robert Hays, Jr. (Teff=2.00, 10 NDA, 19 PER, 14 SPO)
Soheil Khoshbinfar (Teff=1.80, 4 PER, 6 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=3.50, 2 CAP, 2 NDA, 42 PER, 3 SDA, 57 SPO)
Bert Matous (Teff=3.00, 1 AQR, 2 CAP, 1 KCG, 4 NDA, 29 PER, 5 SDA, 27
SPO)
Brian Shulist (Teff=1.50, 9 AQR, 11 PER, 10 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=4.00, 4 AQR, 1 CAP, 41 PER, 35 SPO)
August 9:
Jure Atanackov (Teff=4.10, 6 AQR, 4 CAP, 1 KCG, 78 PER, 81 SPO)
Peter Detterline (Teff=2.63, 23 PER, 16 SPO)
Amir Hasanzadeh (Teff=1.72, 7 PER, 5 SPO)
Robert Hays, Jr. (Teff=2.00, 5 NDA, 27 PER, 2 SIA, 15 SPO)
Ken Hodonsky (Teff=2.95, 3 CAP, 3 KCG, 6 NDA, 22 PER, 2 SDA, 34 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=4.00, 2 CAP, 4 KCG, 2 NDA, 25 PER, 1 SDA, 16
SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=3.36, 1 CAP, 3 KCG, 2 NDA, 45 PER, 5 SDA, 50 SPO)
Bert Matous (Teff=1.50, 1 KCG, 2 NDA, 21 PER, 1 SDA, 1 SIA, 12 SPO)
Mazyar Seyyednezhad (Teff=1.74, 5 PER, 6 SPO)
Brian Shulist (Teff=4.00, 20 AQR, 1 KCG, 60 PER, 29 SPO)
Wes Stone (Teff=1.50, 23 PER, 25 SPO)
Mark Williams (Teff=1.48, 4 PER, 1 SPO)
August 10:
Peter Detterline (Teff=4.74, 51 PER, 29 SPO)
Eric Flescher (Teff=1.75, 9 PER, 3 SPO)
Cathy Hall (Teff=1.69, 1 NDA, 2 NIA, 19 PER, 3 SIA, 22 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=1.68, 2 NIA, 17 PER, 2 SDA, 2 SIA, 11 SPO)
Robert Hays, Jr. (Teff=1.00, 1 NDA, 14 PER, 8 SPO)
Javor Kac (Teff=0.55, 3 PER, 2 SPO)
Norman McLeod (Teff=2.12, 1 CAP, 2 NDA, 1 PAU, 16 PER, 2 SDA, 6 SPO)
Thom Morgan (Teff=2.72, 2 KCG, 16 PER)
Brian Shulist (Teff=3.00, 13 AQR, 1 KCG, 65 PER, 20 SPO)
Wes Stone (Teff=1.00, 32 PER, 27 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=2.00, 2 AQR, 2 CAP, 2 CG, 17 PER, 16 SPO)
August 11:
Dustin Brown (Teff=1.00, 10 PER, 7 SPO)
Stefano Crivello (Teff=1.39, 1 ACG, 1 KCG, 1 NDA, 12 PER, 1 SPO)
Denis Denissenko (Teff=3.83, 1 CAP, 3 KCG, 1 NDA, 57 PER, 4 SPO)
Peter Detterline (Teff=3.18, 44 PER, 25 SPO)
Eric Flescher (Teff=3.50, 18 PER, 15 SPO)
Mike Linnolt (Teff=0.50, 1 KCG, 4 PER, 1 SDA, 6 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=5.00, 2 CAP, 3 KCG, 4 NDA, 90 PER, 2 SDA, 59
SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=1 CAP, 1 KCG, 4 NDA, 62 PER, 4 SDA, 43 SPO)
Ashley Matous (Teff=2.50, 1 CAP, 1 KCG, 14 PER, 1 SIA, 25 SPO)
Bert Matous (Teff=2.50, 1 KCG, 1 NDA, 15 PER, 2 SIA, 23 SPO)
Brian Shulist (Teff=4.00, 15 AQR, 1 KCG, 106 PER, 34 SPO)
Wes Stone (Teff=2.00, 2 KCG, 77 PER, 33 SPO)
Josep Trigo-Rodriguez (Teff=1.68, 11 PER, 1 SPO)
Fred Weber (Teff=1.36, 3 KCG, 23 PER, 3 SPO)
Kim Youmans (Teff=2.03, 39 PER, 16 SPO)
Robert Young (Teff=2.50, 4 KCG, 2 NDA, 17 PER, 1 SPO)
August 12:
Ardalan Alizadeh (Teff=1.23, 21 PER, 15 SPO)
Javad Azizi (Teff=0.75, 13 PER, 4 SPO)
Lance Benner (Teff=3.75, 213 PER, 50 SPO)
Mike Boschat (Teff=3.00, 1 PER, 1 SPO)
Dustin Brown (Teff=1.17, 25 PER, 9 SPO)
Stefano Crivello (Teff=4.45, 1 ACG, 1 CAP, 1 ERI, 3 KCG, 2 NDA, 136
PER,
2 SIA, 7 SPO)
Denis Denissenko (Teff=4.00, 2 KCG, 4 NDA, 129 PER, 5 SPO)
Peter Detterline (Teff=4.26, 142 PER, 27 SPO)
Eric Flescher (Teff=2.00, 18 PER, 3 SPO)
George Gliba (Teff=3.00, 9 AQR, 1 CAP, 6 KCG, 105 PER, 23 SPO)
Rosely Gregio (Teff=2.17, 8 ERI, 3 PER, 2 SPO)
Amir Hasanzadeh (Teff=1.08, 30 PER, 6 SPO)
Robert Hays, Jr. (Teff=1.00, 1 NDA, 56 PER, 7 SPO)

Zoltan Hevesi (Teff=0.50, 15 PER, 2 SPO)
Marek Kozubal (Teff=4.44, 8 KCG, 108 PER, 43 SPO)
Mike Linnolt (Teff=1.00, 1 KCG, 1 NDA, 34 PER, 1 SDA, 16 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=1.00, 43 PER, 8 SPO)
Alan MacRobert (Teff=1.00, 1 AQR, 23 PER, 6 SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=4.86, 2 CAP, 2 KCG, 2 NDA, 208 PER, 3 SDA, 42 SPO)
Bert Matous (Teff=1.75, 1 CAP, 1 KCG, 25 PER, 3 SIA, 12 SPO)
Huan Meng (Teff=1.02, 3 KCG, 5 NIA, 22 PER, 10 SPO)
Ali Moosazadeh (Teff=0.75, 9 PER, 3 SPO)
Thom Morgan (Teff=2.11, 1 KCG, 15 PER, 3 SPO)
Mazyar Seyyednezhad (Teff=0.90, 24 PER, 11 SPO)
Mohammad Reza Shafaroodee (Teff=1.00, 19 PER)
Sergey Shanov (Teff=2.00, 44 PER, 9 SPO)
Brian Shulist (Teff=4.50, 15 AQR, 2 KCG, 184 PER, 32 SPO)
Wes Stone (Teff=1.50, 58 PER, 10 SPO)
David Swann (Teff=5.00, 2 CAP, 6 CAS, 46 PER, 6 UPG, 21 SPO)
Josep Trigo-Rodriguez (Teff=2.00, 1 CAP, 1 NDA, 17 PER, 2 SPO)
Daniel van Os (Teff=0.90, 1 AQR, 6 PER, 3 SPO)
Arash Voghoee (Teff=1.92, 39 PER)
Bill Watson (Teff=4.93, 9 AQR, 3 CAS, 97 PER, 19 SPO)
August 13:
Puya Ahmadifard (Teff=1.75, 43 PER)
Karl Antier (Teff=1.00, 61 PER, 28 SPO)
Mike Boschat (Teff=3.00, 1 PER, 2 SPO)
Stefano Crivello (Teff=2.48, 1 ACG, 1 CAP, 1 CAS, 2 KCG, 1 LAC, 35
PER,
2 SDA, 1 SIA)
Malcolm Currie (Teff=4.66, 1 KCG, 2 NDA, 2 NIA, 223 PER, 1 SDA, 2
SIA, 54
SPO)
Peter Detterline (Teff=0.83, 46 PER, 14 SPO)
Cathy Hall (Teff=3.52, 1 KCG, 36 PER, 15 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=3.77, 4 ERI, 4 KCG, 10 NDA, 174 PER, 27 SPO)
Dave Hostetter (Teff=2.00, 4 CAP, 27 PER, 5 SPO)
Tomislav Jurkic (Teff=4.24, 85 PER, 6 SPO)
Marco Langbroek (Teff=2.33, 5 AQR, 1 CAP, 2 KCG, 147 PER, 28 SPO)
Mike Linnolt (Teff=0.50, 3 PER, 8 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=7.50, 1 CAP, 2 KCG, 4 NDA, 192 PER, 5 SDA, 54
SPO)
Pierre Martin (Teff=4.58, 144 PER, 1 SDA, 27 SPO)
Huan Meng (Teff=3.23, 11 KCG, 129 PER, 49 SPO)
Arash Nabizadeh (Teff=5.00, 144 PER)
Sergey Shanov (Teff=2.00, 45 PER, 15 SPO)
Brian Shulist (Teff=3.58, 10 AQR, 3 KCG, 125 PER, 24 SPO)
Enrico Stomeo (Teff=5.15, 2 ACG, 2 CAP, 3 KCG, 8 NDA, 166 PER, 26 SPO)
Wes Stone (Teff=3.00, 3 KCG, 137 PER, 34 SPO)
Richard Taibi (Teff=3.29, 2 AQR, 2 CAP, 51 PER, 16 SPO)
Josep Trigo-Rodriguez (Teff=1.40, 40 PER, 1 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=3.30, 4 AQR, 1 CAP, 197 PER, 40 SPO)
Daniel van Os (Teff=1.28, 1 CAP, 58 PER, 10 SPO)
Harry Waldron (Teff=1.00, 6 PER, 1 SPO)
Fred Weber (Teff=2.64, 5 KCG, 58 PER, 10 SPO)
Jin Zhu (Teff=1.84, 49 PER, 29 SPO)
August 14:
Mike Boschat (Teff=3.00, 1 PER)
Peter Detterline (Teff=3.54, 72 PER, 31 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=1.94, 3 ERI, 2 KCG, 5 NDA, 66 PER, 3 SDA, 17 SPO)
Robert Hays, Jr. (Teff=2.00, 4 KCG, 44 PER, 11 SPO)
Javor Kac (Teff=5.53, 8 AQR, 2 KCG, 169 PER, 60 SPO)
Marco Langbroek (Teff=3.42, 7 AQR, 1 CAP, 2 KCG, 143 PER, 71 SPO)
Josep Trigo-Rodriguez (Teff=0.85, 7 PER, 2 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=6.00, 6 AQR, 5 KCG, 125 PER, 82 SPO)
Daniel van Os Teff=2.64, 3 KCG, 66 PER, 23 SPO)
August 15:
Stefan Cikota (Teff=1.33, 10 PER, 3 SPO)
Daniel Gruen (Teff=2.75, 2 KCG, 3 NDA, 24 PER, 23 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=1.43, 2 ERI, 2 KCG, 6 NDA, 25 PER, 2 SIA, 14 SPO)
Ken Hodonsky (Teff=3.40, 2 KCG, 3 NDA, 20 PER, 44 SPO)
Javor Kac (Teff=2.67, 9 AQR, 2 KCG, 54 PER, 25 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=5.50, 5 AQR, 3 KCG, 64 PER, 83 SPO)
Robert Young (Teff=1.00, 1 KCG, 2 NDA, 5 PER)
August 16:
Daniel Gruen (Teff=4.00, 7 KCG, 4 NDA, 29 PER, 32 SPO)
Roberto Haver (Teff=3.17, 5 ERI, 4 KCG, 7 NDA, 3 NIA, 30 PER, 3 SDA,
23 SPO)
Robert Lunsford (Teff=3.73, 2 KCG, 1 NDA, 1 NIA, 26 PER, 1 SDA, 16
SPO)
Senka Pinteric (Teff=5.07, 50 PER, 28 SPO)
Nikola Strah (Teff=3.18, 9 PER, 18 SPO)
Nela Tomiae (Teff=39 PER, 24 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=4.67, 3 AQR, 3 KCG, 32 PER, 43 SPO)
August 17:
Javor Kac (Teff=1.87, 1 AQR, 3 KCG, 8 PER, 1 SDA, 4 SPO)
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=3.50, 4 AQR, 3 KCG, 18 PER, 36 SPO)
August 18:
Michel Vandeputte (Teff=4.00, 2 AQR, 4 KCG, 12 PER, 39 SPO)
August 30:
Robert Lunsford (Teff=2.86, 6 AUR, 2 ERI, 2 SPI, 30 SPO)
TABLE B: OBSERVED SHOWERS
Shower # Observed
ACG: Alpha Cygnids 5
AQR: Combined Aquarid Radiants 175
AUR: Alpha Aurigids 6
CAP: Alpha Capricornids 55
CAS: Cassiopeids 10
ERI: Eridanids (various radiants) 25
KCG: Kappa Cygnids 166
LAC: Lacertids 1
NDA: Northern Delta Aquarids 129
NIA: Northern Iota Aquarids 15
PAU: Piscis Austrinids 1
PER: Perseids 6967
SDA: Southern Delta Aquarids 74
SIA: Southern Iota Aquarids 21
SPI: Piscids 2
UPG: Upsilon Pegasids 6
SPO: Sporadics 2816