Anybody taking their volks in their wagen out tonight to watch the Leonids Meteor Shower? 11pm Monday and 5.30am Tuesday Eastern Time. The Westy is the ideal vehicle for driving out of town leaving the street lights behind. Up here in the Northeast it will be chilly tomorrow morning and I'll have some hot tea brewing on the burner for after the show . Just in case anybody's up late or early. Joachim Acton, MA [mailto:spielmobil@earthlink.net} '85 Westfalia 'Spielmobil'
"The Leonid meteor shower, that middle-of-November, middle-of-the-night celestial light show, may give sky watchers in eastern North America a double dose of shooting stars tonight. The shower, which takes place every year around Nov. 18 as Earth travels through streams of dust left behind by the comet Temple-Tuttle, is expected to have two peak periods. The first will occur about 11 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, and European observers should have the best view. The second comes some six hours later, around 5:15 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, when North Americans get the best view." (NY Times). |
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