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Re: (meteorobs) Leonids latest?
I want to watch lionids from Bhuj India (69.42E, 23.18N)
Is there any prediction available?
our club members are waiting to watch this phenomena.
In 1998 we saw large no. of lionids. What a surprising vision it was !!!
Narendra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Casper ter Kuile" <casper.ter.kuile@dmsweb.org>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonids latest?
> At 22:55 04-08-2001 , you wrote:
> >In a message dated 8/4/01 4:40:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
KCStarguy@aol.com
> >writes:
> >
> ><< what is the latest on the Leonids and what is predicted for a storm or
> >what?
> > where are the predicted best places to be in US (west?). I am trying to
> > decide whether to fly some place for a night. >>
> >
> >It appears you have two options:
> >
> >1) Go to some place in eastern Asia or western Australia, where dust
trails
> >ejected from 55P/Tempel-Tuttle in 1699 and 1866 are expected to augment
each
> >other and produce hourly rates of perhaps 5000 to 15000 per hour. This
very
> >high activity is expect to occur sometime between 17:30 and 18:30 UT on
> >November 18 (though in the above mentioned locales, west of the
International
> >Date Line, the calendar date is November 19).
> >
> >2) Stay in North America where a 1767 dust trail is expected to interact
with
> >the Earth sometime between 10:00 and 10:30 UT on November 18. We will
not
> >hit this trail as directly as the 1699 and 1866 trails, so Americans may
have
> >to console themselves to a brief meteor outburst of "only" 2000 to 2500
per
> >hour.
> >
> >These figures are based on the independent calculations of David Asher
and
> >Rob McNaught and Esko Lyytinen and Tom Van Flandern.
> >
> >-- joe rao
>
>
>
> Hi Joe and others on the list,
>
> In a few days from now Peter Jenniskens from NASA-Ames research will
> present new predictions at Meteoroids 2001 in Kiruna, Sweden which may
> surprise you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Casper.
>
>
>
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