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(meteorobs) No Live TV coverage of 98 Leonids
Joe Rao posted today on aol the following message. Just passing it along for
him.
George Zay
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>>Here is some bad news (see below) concerning possible televised coverage of
the 1998 Leonid shower which was forwarded to me by Bing Quock of the
California Academy of Sciences. I do not know whether this affects the
coverage of the shower on the WWW, although I perceive this to mean that NASA-
TV's airborne coverage from Okinawa is now off.
-- joe
rao
From: bquock@casmaildot calacademy.org (Bing Quock)
To: Joe Rao
Joe,
FYI, unfortunately, the news on the Leonids live-feed isn't
good. According to Peter Jenniskens' update on the Leonid
website today, his airborne observation is still on, but the
company that was enlisted to uplink the feed backed out due
to what they perceived as a "lack of enthusiasm" - whatever
THAT means, since response from the planetarium/museum area
has been very enthusiastic. It also sounds as if funding is
an issue. Well, perhaps there's next year...
Bing Quock
Morrison Planetarium
San Francisco, CA
bquock@calacademy.org<<