[thechat] Early Sunday: Leonid!

Marlene Bruce marlene at digitizethis.com
Wed Nov 14 00:05:59 CST 2001


FYI: this is US-centric, but info about day/times for other 
continents should be available *somewhere* on-line. I went out to 
watch with a friend a couple years ago; this year's show sounds 
fabulous.

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LEONID METEOR SHOWER COULD BE ONE OF BEST IN HISTORY
- Press release Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Oct. 30, 2001)

San Francisco, Calif. - In the wee morning hours of Sunday, November 
18, the Leonid meteor shower might intensify into a dazzling meteor 
storm, with "shooting stars" continuously blazing trails across the 
night sky. Viewers across the United States are perfectly positioned 
to take advantage of the storm, which could be among the most 
spectacular sky events of the 21st century according to the latest 
scientific predictions.

The peak in shower activity will occur between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. 
EST, or 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. PST on Sunday morning, November 18. 
"During the peak, people viewing under clear and dark skies could see 
meteors shooting across the sky at a rate of 1,000 to 2,000 per hour, 
with flurries of one meteor per second at the peak of the storm," 
says Robert Naeye, Editor of Mercury magazine, which is published in 
San Francisco by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)




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