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Re: (meteorobs) METEOR ALERT! Leonids due to peak early Monday!
Joe Rao>>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.<<
Jean>>What would be those times in UT please.<<
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1)When the earth crosses the comet's node at 5h34 PST...In Universal Time,
that is 13h34.
2) 2h40 PST ... the moment when the Earth will be passing that part
of
55P/Tempel-Tuttle's orbit which produced the epic meteor storm of
1966....2h40 PST in Universal Time is: 10h40.
George Zay