Re: (meteorobs) Re: What? A Leonid storm in *1886*?!?

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Re: What? A Leonid storm in *1886*?!?
• From: Daniel Fischer <dfischer@astro.uni-bonndot de>
• Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:29:24 +0200 (MET DST)
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> And perhaps if the 1999 Leonids
> were substituted for the 1886 situation, the display might indeed have been
> missed altogether

How about 1966? How many non-astronomers in the American West saw that
spectacle (which was unanticipated and shouldn't have been in the media,
I think)? Have there been formal or informal surveys back then? 

Daniel
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