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By Trevor Clifton
Pictured below is the backscatter data for the 24 hour period covering the Geminid maximum.
Some of the gaps in the data is due to high levels of RF interference which although the meteor data is logged in a text file its not printed on the graph as it may be unreliable.
By Trevor Clifton
Given the sharp rise and fall the timings would suggest that the Earth travelled some 315,000 miles while in the debris stream from the comet.
It will be interesting to see if this figure changes next year.
Each bar in the chart is the meteor count for 10 minutes. 824 recorded for the 24 hours before and 1103 for the main day.
