Earthgrazers and Fireballs: The Strange Side of The Leonid Meteor Shower

Space.com ^ | November 16, 2001 | By Robert Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer, SPACE.com

[Lucky]

Or signs in the sky, bright stars in the East.

[2sheep]

Within the stream are probably thousands of bodies including asteroids, mountain-and island-sized boulders, smaller meteoroids, Encke's Comet and assorted fragments of celestial refuse.

I remember hiking and walking under waterfalls when I was a kid.  On the outside one was in a mist. As I walked closer to the main falls, the power and intensity and size of the water increased in size.  Wouldn't this also be the case with this Leonid storm?

[Sabertooth]

Growl for the Leonids.

[Texaggie79]

Tonight? More like tomorrow morning before 5. I plan to watch from my tree stand. Nice way to pass the time until daylight.

[rockfish59]

'don't you know that you are a shooting star'? (bad co.)

[tubebender]

re; #8. Great smiley face! When is your next class and where do I sign up?

[headsonpikes]

Catastrophist Bump!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the info.

[blam]

"Wouldn't this also be the case with this Leonid storm?

Yes, that is the 'gravity lensing' they're talking about.

[Slyfox]

Within the stream are probably thousands of bodies including asteroids, mountain-and island-sized boulders...

Huh. Sounds sort of Biblical, the mountains falling and all.

[blam]

"According to Dr. Clube, the last time that the stream was closest within Earth's orbit was in the first millennium BC, from about 500BC up to 0AD, the time of Christ.

You didn't miss this did you. Would make for good 'fire and brimstone' bibical writing, huh?

[Slyfox]

I guess I did miss it. Where was that?

[blam]

"I guess I did miss it. Where was that?"

Up in the text. lol

[blam]

"Yes, that is the 'gravity lensing' they're talking about."

Oops. I meant to say, 'gravity focusing'. 'Gravity lensing' is an entirely different subject.

[walden]

We're driving down before midnight to Galvaston beach, and going to stay up all night and watch!

[walden]

No doubt about it, sometime in the next several million years we're going to have a SERIOUS problem. GEEZ! How can you worry about something so amorphous?

[MeekOneGOP]

We're driving down before midnight to Galvaston beach, and going to stay up all night and watch!

Enjoy! Please let me know how it is, friend! I'm gonna check it out from my back yard tonight and EARLY AM! ;-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don't think you can see anything here in the LA Basin!

Rats, thanks for the article!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"Don't you know, yeah, don't you know. Don't you know that you are a shooting star. And all the world will love you just as long, As long as you are." My fav singer Paul Rodgers!!!

[rubofthebrush]

I've read that Comet Temple-Tuttle comes closest to the sun every 33 years. Our lord was 33 when he departed and was carried off to heaven.Coincidence?
St.Mat 28 18 "All power is given unto me in heaven and earth"