[Geysers] RE: Short Early Grotto Postmarathon

[Jan and Lew]

Shortest Grotto we recorded
7/22/95
Start 2:58
End  12:04  (Lew visual end 12:19)
556 minutes duration

Start 1513
End  1538
24 minutes duration

We both were there in the morning taking stupid notes about the marathon pool and the eternal (I mean variable) spring.  Seems we spent the morning watching them do nothing very interesting then we went to the hill. It seems we were watching Beehive at 1551 that day.   So a Rocket would be possible since no one would have been looking that way.  I do think that we went through stuff with David and David and came up with the notion of a "false marathon stop" with great glee.....(its even in our notes) what fun it was!

Jan and Lew
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Low 
  To: geyser observation reports 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:43 AM
  Subject: [Geysers] RE: Short Early Grotto Postmarathon


         I haven't seen anything like the short Grottos Scott and Paul described, but it sparks a memory.  Whichever year (1997) the Johns were conducting a Grotto study they noted a few times when Grotto erupted very early after a marathon.  Sometimes only a few hours after the end of a long marathon.  These eruptions were very short (less than an hour) and seemed count as a little extra duration on the marathon in the sense that if you added their duration to the marathon and counted the marathon interval to the next 'real' Grotto it was about what the duration/interval formula would have predicted.  None of these were seen that year so it's possible that Rocket had strong, early eruptions in those too.



    David Goldberg (from Karen's email account)





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