[meteorite-list] Leonids - LA County

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:16 2004
Message-ID: <20021119203501.65376.qmail_at_web80307.mail.yahoo.com>

My wife had difficulty waking me up for work this
morning, after I had stayed up to 4:30AM observing the
Leonids, so she turned on the KTLA - Ch5 - Morning
News. She knows that I can't stand that program in
the morning, but she figured that it would wake me up.
 
(Mind you, I think very highly of their late night
news with Hal Fishface, but the morning news must be
geared to the nightclub set, those that stayed up all
night.)
What woke me up was their segment on the Leonids - all
the the people who went up to the mountains to view -
and how "the Leonids were a BUST this year"!
Well, from where I was observing (which was from the
viewpoint on Templin Hwy, off of Rt 5 north of
Castaic, CA) my group was one of more than 30 CARLOADS
of people, and from the sounds of the voices and the
gasps of delight from the various groups, it sure
didn't sound like it was "a bust" to me.

Wish I had something unique to report, but my
observations were very similar to what has already
been reported by many other observers throughout
SoCal.

Next month's shower is my favorite - the Geminids - an
asteroidal debris shower! (If you've ever been to a
baseball game, you've seen those "hopeful" kids with
their baseball gloves. Well, that's me at a Geminid
meteor shower;-)

Bob V.
  

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Received on Tue 19 Nov 2002 03:35:01 PM PST