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(meteorobs) Da Vinci and the Leonids (was Re: Leonids meteor shower peak this year - 17, 18, 19 or 20 Nov??)

[
 Local astronomy club member Mike Deneen responded to my posting about
 the various Leonid peaks the other day... His post was so interesting,
 I thought it was worth sharing with the wider 'meteorobs' community.

 -Lew Gramer
]


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Deneen
To: 'nsaac'
Subject: Re: (NSAAC) Leonids meteor shower peak this year - 17, 18, 19 or 20
Nov??
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:00:29 -0500

Another interesting distinction is that Monday's possible peak will come
from the 1499 trail, and Wednesday's from the 1533 trail (see Sky & Tel).

Between the two appearances of Tempel-Tuttle, Da Vinci painted the Mona
Lisa, Michelangelo painted the Cistine Chapel ceiling, Martin Luther was
excommunicated, Rome was pillaged and Machiavelli died. So that's a lot of
history between Monday & Wednesday.

MPD


-----Original Message-----
From: Lew Gramer
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Leonids meteor shower peak this year - 17, 18, 19 or 20 Nov??

Local astronomy club member Roger Greenwood read an excerpt from the North
American Meteor Network's "NAMN Notes" this week, and asked me the following
question:

>...[NAMN was] quoted that the peak of the showers was to be 9:30 p.m.
>EST, Monday the 17th. Could you possibly confirm that as I've seen it
>predicted for the early morning of the 19th. I may pull an all nighter
>and want to make it count...


Roger, you're right that there are indeed good predictions
for early the morning of Wednesday, 19 November:

  http://celestialdelights.info/ms/leonids2003b.html

But remember - the Leonids are not just a producer of in- frequent meteor
storms. They are also a more "traditional" annual Major Meteor Shower -
producing reliable displays of 10 or so per hour every year, decade after
decade. So will there be "a" Leonid peak - the one for the regular old
annual shower - on Monday night, 17 November? Well, probably yes - and there
may be *other* peaks, too!


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