Leonid Meteor Shower

[ken_valyi]

"The August Perseids meteor shower, which normally gets the most annual
astronomer attention, records a rate of about 80 meteors an hour, but this
November's Leonids will record a rate over 2000," Jenniskens said.

Story on Wired (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48016,00.html)

The meteor shower is scheduled to happen on November 18 and is supposed to be the most impressive since 1966.

This means I have to go outside though, doesn't it? :D

[Cane Says]

Thanks for the info. i haven't seen a good meteor shower in a long time, not since i moved from the N.C. mountains down into the plains. I am looking forward to this

[ken_valyi]

Story on CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/index.html)

Best times are supposed to be between midnight and 6 Sunday Morning, most activity should be between 4 and 6.

I'm sure if I want to stay up to see it, or go to bed early and wake up at 4 and catch it then.

[P.J Stock]

I hope this isnt a stupid question but.....What is a meteor shower? If I look up in the sky ill see it? or something along those lines?

Edit: nevermind, I just read the article. Maybe I should have done that first, eh?

[ken_valyi]

Argh!

I was looking so forward to this but sure enough a fog rolled in from Lake St. Clair and I didn't get to see a damn thing!

Whada pissah! :(

[P.J Stock]

I think I saw maybe 8 or so of this things last night. Pretty cool.

[ChrisFrez]

I saw quite the show in the air flying from Las Vegas back to Detroit. It was amazing!!!