Aurigid Meteors on September 1?
YES! The Aurigids showed up right on schedule in 2007! Bursts started increasing in number and duration just before 1100 Z. By about 1150 Z things were back to normal. But during about a 30-45 minute period, 144 MHz was filled with MS signals. It was reported that 50 MHz had “full time 6m ionization”, and contacts on 222 were attmpted (results unknown). The earth passed thru the one-revolution rubble trail from long-period Comet Kiess at that time, as several forecasters had predicted. Comet Kiess has a period of approximately 2000 years, and extra meteors have been reported 3 times in recent years. At the peak time, about 1120 UTC, 144.200 was a solid mass of signals. It reminded some of the big Perseids and Leonids storms of a few years ago! Because the peak occurred after daylight and with a nearly full moon still in the sky in the eastern and central parts of North America, visual reports will have to come from the West Coast. At this time the ZHR is not known. But listening to 144
