2001 Leonids
In a slashdot thread on next week’s Leonid Meteor Shower, Brad Templeton wrote:
Though there are 4 different sets of predictions, the main 3 agree exactly on the times of the peak – 10 GMT and 18 GMT. I’m off to Japan or places near it. Airfares are super low – $400 or so round trip to Japan.
Joe Haldeman saw the storm in 1966. That one was bigger, about 66,000 meteors per hour by estimate. He described it to me as being like in a car driving through the snow or being on the bridge of the enterprise. For the first time, he felt he was on a planet speeding through space. It gave him a real sense of scale.
Thinking of the best place to be Sunday night. Figure out where Leo is going to be. Get a bunch of people out there and treat it as the event it is.
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Posted to The Good • 2001.11.12 (Mon) • 12:52
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