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Re: (meteorobs) Leonids in the news
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Richardson" <richardsont@cofcdot edu>
To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonids in the news
> Terry,
>
> The Leonids have a narrow peak and the drop off will be significant. In
> addition the predictions you make reference to are possible encounters with
> dust trails where there may be brief (hour or less) surges in the rates.
>
> Since the normal Leonids are not all that bright and the moon is right at
> the radiant I would discourage a public viewing for inexperienced people as
> being bad publicity for astronomy-akin to the comet Kohoutec fiasco of some
> years ago which made some long lasting enemies for astronomy.
I pretty much agree......
It's great to get the public involved and such, but people are much harder to
amaze these days, and a non-fireball show even with a ZHR of 100 with the moon
out probably won't impress someone out in the middle of the night for a "show."
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