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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 00:28
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 00:28
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In article <7694.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com> bill.nunnelee@the-matrix.com (Bill Nunnelee) writes:
>-> What are the Leonids?
>
>This is a meteor shower that reaches peak activity around November 16th
>each year. Normally, the numbers are fairly low, but once every 33
>years (the period of the parent comet), very spectacular displays
>can occur...
Note "can", not "will". The impressive 1966 shower caught a lot of
people by surprise, because the 1933 and 1900 peaks were nothing much
and it was widely thought that the Leonids were dying out.
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MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: NEED HELP FAST! LOOKING F Message-ID: <Bx0HBM.23w@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 00:28:32 GMT References: <7694.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14