Topic: Meteor Shower Peaks on Wednesday

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100 per hour with fireballs would be most impressive....

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/14/leonids.meteors.ap/index.html

(AP) -- Stargazers in much of the world may see the Leonids light up the night sky this month, including over North America in the coming days.

The annual meteor shower is expected to peak twice this year.

The so-called "shooting star" display first peaked for viewers in western Asia, Indonesia and Australia before dawn on November 14th.

For western Africa, western Europe, North America and western portions of South America, the display peaks a few days later, on November 19, according to astronomers.

Viewers will be able to see 100 or so meteors per hour, some of them fireballs, said Stuart Levy of the Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society in central Illinois.

Levy's views of spectacular Leonid showers during the past few years were ruined by clouds, but he'll be trying again this month.

"I've missed the best, when people were seeing hundreds of meteors an hour. If I see 100 an hour this time around I'll be happy. It might be a really good show, with luck," he said.

 

[Dracho]

100 per hour with fireballs would be most impressive....

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/14/leonids.meteors.ap/index.html

(AP) -- Stargazers in much of the world may see the Leonids light up the night sky this month, including over North America in the coming days.

The annual meteor shower is expected to peak twice this year.

The so-called "shooting star" display first peaked for viewers in western Asia, Indonesia and Australia before dawn on November 14th.

For western Africa, western Europe, North America and western portions of South America, the display peaks a few days later, on November 19, according to astronomers.

Viewers will be able to see 100 or so meteors per hour, some of them fireballs, said Stuart Levy of the Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society in central Illinois.

Levy's views of spectacular Leonid showers during the past few years were ruined by clouds, but he'll be trying again this month.

"I've missed the best, when people were seeing hundreds of meteors an hour. If I see 100 an hour this time around I'll be happy. It might be a really good show, with luck," he said.

 

[Dracho]

100 per hour with fireballs would be most impressive....

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/14/leonids.meteors.ap/index.html

(AP) -- Stargazers in much of the world may see the Leonids light up the night sky this month, including over North America in the coming days.

The annual meteor shower is expected to peak twice this year.

The so-called "shooting star" display first peaked for viewers in western Asia, Indonesia and Australia before dawn on November 14th.

For western Africa, western Europe, North America and western portions of South America, the display peaks a few days later, on November 19, according to astronomers.

Viewers will be able to see 100 or so meteors per hour, some of them fireballs, said Stuart Levy of the Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society in central Illinois.

Levy's views of spectacular Leonid showers during the past few years were ruined by clouds, but he'll be trying again this month.

"I've missed the best, when people were seeing hundreds of meteors an hour. If I see 100 an hour this time around I'll be happy. It might be a really good show, with luck," he said.