[wordup] Leonids Supposed to be Especially Good This Year

[Adam Shand]

Cool ... have to go do some night sky watching ...

Via: The Eristocracy <Eristocracy at merrymeet.com>
From: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48016,00.html

The United States can look forward to the most spectacular meteor show
since 1966 -- and it might be another 98 years before anything so
sensational will be seen again.

The Nov. 18 Leonid meteor shower will be "very impressive, rare and
something that you'll want to see," said Peter Jenniskens, a research
scientist specializing in the study of meteors at the NASA/Ames Research
Center at California's Moffett Field.

"The August Perseids meteor shower, which normally gets the most annual
astronomer attention, records a rate of about 80 meteors an hour, but this
November's Leonids will record a rate over 2000," Jenniskens said.