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Re: (meteorobs) Pennsylvannia Impact
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan West" <west@elvis.rowandot edu>
To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Cc: <nmastro@ptddot net>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Pennsylvannia Impact
>
> I'm assuming it was between 3, and 3:15am. I am totally amateur with this
> stuff, I just decided to go out and watch that night ,because I saw the
> reports on websites, that it would be a cool night. I'm still confused as
> to why the media hasn't been reporting about it in the past.
Well, they got the dates wrong quite a bit the last couple years (especially
1998)..I mean, even wrong from the generally accepted predictions of the meteor
community...I've noticed newscasts often being off by a day on the night they
tell people to look.
But the main thing is, 99.999999% of the general public is NOT going to go
outside at 2-4AM in November..especially on a weekday, which until this year,
has been when the Leonids are. This newsgroup is a tiny minority of fanatics
(and within this tiny minority of fanatics there's an even TINIER minority of
fanatics, the IMO members, the people that will spend hour upon hour trying to
document a suspected shower with a ZHR of 5, etc.)
Basically what happened is they'd talk about it on the news, and Joe Blow pokes
his head outside for 10 minutes at 9PM, sees nothing, and it's a big "Dud".
It's been incredibly hard to convey that you can't see anything until after
midnight.
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