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RE: (meteorobs) Re: Leo 2001 coverage in S&T 3/2002




Among other things about the March Sky & Tel article Daniel Fischer wrote:

>The instructive ZHR plot www.spaceweather.com/meteors/leonids/2001/zhr_imo_
>big.gif - for instance - was available less than a week after the storms.

But the American Meteor Society plot of the american Leonid Shower Outburst
today shows a peak ZHR of 2500 near 11 UT on November 18, 2001! At the time
the March issue went to press the earlier IMO ZHR was about 1500 for the
same time, which is much different than the AMS ZHR of 2500. No wonder S&T
was confused. They even wrote that the experts don't agree. We should be 
asking, why are the AMS rates so much higher than the IMO?

Also, I disagree on the level that the article should have been, and that
it was not *so* easy to intergate all the evidence available to S&T.

GWG
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