Wow!  The view around 5:15 am in Central New Jersey was spectacular - worth
getting up early to see it.  Even with a slight cloud cover, I saw 3 in the
first 30 seconds!
I even woke up my 9-yr old son who enjoyed it in 35 degree weather for
about 3 minutes - saw 8 - 10 meteors and went back to bed.
Best show I've ever seen!

>Sender: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Gary Nolan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Tonight's Leonids -- and those 100 years from
>              now.
>
>According to the news we here in Atlantic Canada are going to have a good
>view tonight after 11:00 pm. But... with the hight winds(they are about 60
>kph) and cloud cover I don't think we will see a thing here in Cape Breton.
>Well I guess I'll just have wait for the next showing in a hundred years
>time.
>
>Gary Nolan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:55 PM
>Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Tonight's Leonids -- and those 100 years from now.
>
>
>> The AP wrote the following today:
>>
>> ======================================
>>
>> The annual meteor shower usually delivers only a few visible meteors. But
>> hundreds per hour might be visible as they burn up in the atmosphere this
>> time, scientists say.
>>
>> ``Even with the full moon, this year's Leonids will probably be better
>than
>> any other for the next hundred years,'' Don Yeomans, an astronomer at
>NASA's
>> Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, said in a statement. ``If you're
>ever
>> going to see them, this might be the year to try.''
>>
>> The shower is predicted to have two peaks, each a couple of hours long,
>> during which the most meteors can be seen, according to the lab.
>>
>> The first peak is expected over Europe and Africa on Monday night, when
>> observers in North America might see a few meteors skimming the top of the
>> atmosphere, starting around 11:30 p.m. EST Monday.
>>
>> The shower's second peak, most prominent in North American skies, is
>expected
>> at around 5:30 a.m. EST Tuesday. Even though the moonlight will wash out
>the
>> dimmest meteors, viewers in good locations will be able to see a few
>meteors
>> or more every minute.
>>
>> Astronomers predict that the next occurrence of a Leonid storm even close
>to
>> this magnitude will be in 2099.
>>
>> =======================================
>>
>> A more detailed story is available at:
>>
>>    http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/meteors/article_719_1.asp
>>
>> Wirt Atmar
>>
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