[Fwd: AL - A holiday present for us from 1405AD]

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 7596

Hi, all. For those of us in North America, I thought I'd forward this
along. I mean, I'll be up cleaning, wrapping presents, etc., anyway...

--Amanda

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: AL - A holiday present for us from 1405AD
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:39:33 -600
From: gunnora at realtime.net
Reply-To: Ansteorra-Laurels at ansteorra.org
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org

In the wee hours on Friday, December 22, North America will be treated
to the
Ursid meteor shower, caused by a dense trail of dust that represents
remnants
of comet 8P/Tuttle, created in 1405AD. They are called Ursids because
they appear
to come from the constellation of Ursa Minor (the Little Bear).

The meteors will become visible at 2:29 a.m. EST on Friday morning and
will
be best viewed in the United States and Canada.

Peter Jenniskens of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
Institute,
who is based at the NASA Ames Research Center in California and Esko
Lyytinen,
a meteor-watcher in Helsinki, Finland, have submitted their predictions
to WGN,
the Journal of the International Meteor Organization. They have also
published
it on the Internet at http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/leonidnews28.html.

::GUNNORA:: 
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