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Re: (meteorobs) METEOR ALERT! Leonids due to peak early Monday!
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> De : GeoZay@aol.com
> A : meteorobs@latrade.com; marcolan@stad.dsldot nl
> Objet : (meteorobs) METEOR ALERT! Leonids due to peak early Monday!
> Date : jeudi 13 novembre 1997 00:56
>
> I received the below message from Joe Rao this morning. Just thought I
would
> pass it along to the mailing list for him.
> George Zay
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> There are two specific time frames to be especially alert to. One is
when
> the Earth crosses the comet's node, which is to occur at 5:34 a.m.
Pacific
> time on Monday morning. Unfortunately, for those in the eastern and
central
> U.S., this occurs after sunrise.
>
> The other time frame is 5:40 a.m. Eastern time. . . 2:40 a.m. Pacific
time.
> This corresponds to the moment when the Earth will be passing that part
of
> 55P/Tempel-Tuttle's orbit which produced the epic meteor storm of 1966.
> According to Mr. Peter Brown of the International Meteor Organization
(IMO)
> some slight enhanced activity has been noted near this region of space
during
> the last two Leonid showers. It will be interesting to see if anything
> unusual is again noted this year when the Earth once again encounters
this
> region of space.
What would be those times in UT please.
Jean-Christophe 'Papou' Millot - Computer and Network Consultant
from Noumea - New Caledonia (22d16 S, 166d27E) UT+11
email : papou@canl.nc home page : http://www.chez.com/papou
Association Caledonienne d'Astronomie : http://www.mygale.org/09/ascala/