persistent train

The luminous trail of ionized particles left by a meteor and visible to the naked eye for periods typically less than one second.

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It left a persistent train or smoke cloud, visible for 15 minutes after the fireball.

Southern African fireball observations 2013

These include: time of appearance (UT); apparent magnitude (brightness); type (shower member, or random, 'background' sporadic); constellation in which seen; presence and duration of any persistent train.

Here come the Perseid meteors!

CENTRAL Trains today launched a hard-hitting campaign to crack down on persistent train fare cheats.

New campaign targets rail fare dodgers

Duration was about 4 seconds, left a 4 seconds persistent train, and disappeared in a small cloud of smoke which persisted for more than 15 minutes.

The daytime bolide of 12 March 2013

Colour yellow becoming white, duration 2 seconds, no fragmentation or persistent train.

Southern African Fireball Observations 2007/8: T P Cooper (Director, Comet and Meteor Section)

Visual observers carried out watches by the Meteor Section's standard method, (9) recording type, time of appearance, magnitude, presence and duration of any persistent train, and other parameters for individual meteors.

The Leonid meteor shower in 2002

They are typically fast and bright, and they occasionally leave persistent trains.

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend

The Perseids have a large number of bright meteors, many of which leave persistent trains," says Dr John Mason of the British Astronomical Association, "and people like to watch it on a warm summer's evening.

Shooting stars: What we know and still need to find out about the Perseid meteor shower

These are swift meteors that produce a high percentage of persistent trains, but few fireballs," the description on the American Meteor Society calendar reads.

2014 Meteor Shower: Eta Aquarids Set to Peak on May 5, What Time to Best View

The shower has a tendency to produce bright meteors, often with persistent trains.

Meteors

So any shower members seen will be earthgrazers that skim far across the top of the atmosphere nearly horizontally and leave long, colorful, persistent trains (as observed in 1986 and 1994).

Earth to hit Aurigid Meteors? On the morning of September 1st, meteor watchers are determined to be ready this time

Jane Houston Jones of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) declared in a blog post that the Lyrids are known to producing bright meteors where several have persistent trains.