The Orionid meteors were prominent on Twitchathon night in Victoria. For
another (local) source on these meteoric phenomena, try Museum Victoria's
Planetarium site
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/planetarium/
Cheers, Lawrie
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> From: RUSSELL DEAN WOODFORD[SMTP:
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 November 1998 1:31 AM
> To:
> Subject: [TAN] meteor storm (fwd)
>
> If you want to look at OTHER things in the sky and all your owls have gone
> away, try this (from Alex Appleman in FNQ, via a few other kind folk):
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:11:40 +1000
> From: Alexandra Appleman <>
> To:
> Subject: [TAN] meteor storm
>
> >>Hi people,
> >>
> >>We all are busy at computers but don't miss the upcoming celestial
> event:
> >>Leonid meteor storm. If you miss this even, you won't see anything so
> >>beautiful in your life. Read more about this:
> >>
> >>http://www.skypub.com/sights/meteors/3showers.html - Sky & Telescope
> >>http://www-space.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/ - NASA
> >>http://www.media-i.com/www/Milkyway/index.html
> >>http://www.imo.net/ - International Meteor Organization
> >>http://leroy.cc.uregina.ca/~astro/Leonids/Leo_1.html
> >>http://www.astro.washington.edu/balick/leonids98.html - University of
> >>Washington
> >>http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast10nov98_1.htm - NASA
> >>http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/leonids.html
>
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