Violent Meteor Storm Heads For Earth

Ananova ^ | 11-11-2001

[lkside]

.....PLEASE,,, NO cloud cover! I live in a remote area where the nearest street light is 4 miles away. I'll be up and looking!!

[cardinal4]

Thanks a lot,Im on the midnight shift this month,so I will go and look.Thanks for the info.

[LibKill]

Batten down the hatches! Women, children and whiners below decks! Stand by to repel boarders!

[KellyAdmirer]

Paging Bruce Willis, paging Bruce Willis....

[Tinman]

Thanks for the link.

Regards

[plinker's2sense]

You're welcome. I look forward to the Leonids every year, I hope this year is worth all the hype (and so does my hubbie who gets dragged out of bed in the middle of the night). Pray for clear skies!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Sounds good. We are going to our mountain hideout in So. California. Its has a large deck and its at the 6500 foot level. I hope its clear and we are hoping its a great show this year.

[Tinman]

My wife and I have been looking for a reason to spend the night camping on our property that's rather remote. This couldn't be timed any better. Saturday night/Sunday morning should be quite interesting.

Thanks again.

Regards

[callisto]

Go here for info about Leonid predictions by continent, in general, and for 30 major US cities.

Space.com

[blam]

Thanks for the link.

[mikrofon]

[from the NASA site]

Below: The Leonid radiant, denoted by a red dot, will appear high in the southern sky at 5 o'clock in the morning (local time) as viewed from mid-Northern latitudes.

That's good -- now it'll be easier to spot where the meteors are coming from .... ;-)

Seriously though, let's hope that clear skies will abound, the moon will be no factor at all this year.

[JimVT]

I believe those were the Perseids

[Howlin]

This coming Saturday night.

[RogueIsland]

Violent Meteor Storm Heads For Earth

When will they learn that violence isn't the answer?

[Tony in Hawaii]

The Hubble has a cover for the lens opening that resembles a giant toilet seat lid.

[Neets]

Ok RA..your time to shine!!!!! Edumicate me here!

[onyx]

Tune in Art Bell for further. He's on top of this story. Seriously.

[CaptSkip]

I wet my pants in the early/mid sixties, about 6 am, in a small town in OKLA due to this f***in' meteor shower.

My dad had just helped me load the morning papers onto my bike for my paper-route.

I only made it about two blocks from my house when I saw the light show above me.

It was amazing! The entire sky was alive for about a week...

This is cool if you know it's coming, and we aren't hurt. If it IS a BIG STORM, and your a young teen on a paper-route, AND IT'S WAY DARK, you'll pee your pants and race home.

CS