[HATS] [Fwd: Leonids]

[Christopher (Chris) W. Boone]

No, its not the Taliban launching anything! May offer one heck of a
light show
and play heck with radio frequencies!
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>From a news correspondent:

The meteor shower predicted for November 18th sounds as though
it may be one of the greatest since the Really Big One of November
13, 1833.
In that true meteor storm, probably the largest in recorded
history, the skies went WHITE with meteors. People read newspapers
outdoors by meteor-light. Eyewitnesses compared the quantity of
"shooting stars" with flying snowflakes in a howling blizzard and
with blowing raindrops in a driving thunderstorm.

When I mentioned this years ago to a former girlfriend, thinking
I was telling her something that she didn't know, she produced a
letter written by her great-grandmother the day after the event.
While her ancestors had been strong frontier Kentucky Christians,
they'd by no means been religious fanatics. Even so, they'd all
donned their white choir robes and best meetin' clothes during the
height of the meteor shower and walked outside to patiently await
the end of the world. So did their friends and neighbors. (I suspect
that I would have done pretty much the same thing in that time
and place.)
Also see
http://www.skypub.com/sights/meteors/leonids/leonids_1833.html

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