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Re: (meteorobs) Newspaper Meteor Article
In a message dated 1/16/00 11:17:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Skywayinc
writes:
<< I don't know . . . Levy is quoted as saying (in his article) that he
personally saw "100 meteors per second" ( ! ). To quote the late Tennessee
Ernie Ford: "As the whale said to Jonah . . . I ainta swallowin' THAT!" >>
I should have clarified that the Levy quote refers to his description of the
1999 Leonid shower as seen from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. The
IMO's "official" ZHR for this display was 5400 -- or 90 per minute/1.5 per
second.
-- joe rao
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