On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:16:26 -0700, "Rick" wrote:

2001, while a nice show, was nothing like what happened
in 1966.

By now it's obvious these "researchers" have no clue about
the true location of the Tempel-Tuttle debris trail(s). They've
been all but promising a storm similar to 1966 every year
since 1999, and all of them have basically sucked (except
for 2001, and even that was a shower -- not a storm).

Well, in 2001 I certainly saw a storm- close to 45 minutes with peaks of three
to five meteors per second. And I saw evidence that the same thing was happening
in 2002, but largely obscured by the Moon.

In fact, the predictions the last few years have been extremely accurate, and
only seem to be getting better as the debris trail theory improves, and
particularly as the models for Tempel-Tuttle debris are refined.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com