Leonid report, Colorado

[Upperbasin]

From 50 mi E of Denver, 1800-2000 UT 11/18 (11PM - 1230AM)

8 Leonids, 5 sporadics. The radiant was on the horizon, so your results may
vary.

Unless there is a straggling filament, it looks like the show's over. The
predicted peak was pretty accurate -- Europe got a pretty intense, albeit
short-lived, meteor shower.

Even now, it's hard to go to bed.. Heck, I've anticipated this night for a
couple of decades and I keep taking one more look...

Paul S.

[Tim Chambers]

From Monument, CO (60 miles south of Denver). I watched off and on from
about 1045 UT to 1215 UT. Rate seemed to be in range estimated by
NASA's flux estimator (http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/estimator.html) --
about 30 per hour.

One spectacular fireball at 1143 UT streaked toward the earth. It was
in the north -- about midway between Cassiopeia and Ursa Major. I was
walking south at the time, and it was so bright I saw the flash with my
back turned. I turned around just in time catch a glimpse of the
fireball fading in the sky. Its tail glowed for several seconds.

I saw two other memorable meteors at 1202 UT and 1212 UT, both in the
eastern sky.

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[DXer]

I saw the same fireball here in Denver to the north also. Bright blue and it
did cause shadows in the park.
Craig

[Pierre Asselin]

Tim Chambers <t...@who.net> writes:

>From Monument, CO (60 miles south of Denver). I watched off and on from
>about 1045 UT to 1215 UT. Rate seemed to be in range estimated by
>NASA's flux estimator (http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/estimator.html) --
>about 30 per hour.

>One spectacular fireball at 1143 UT streaked toward the earth. It was

>in the north -- about midway between Cassiopeia and Ursa Major. I was
>walking south at the time, and it was so bright I saw the flash with my
>back turned. I turned around just in time catch a glimpse of the

>fireball fading in the sky. Its tail glowed for several seconds.

Saw that one too from the Elbert County Fairgrounds in Kiowa, 40 miles
SE of Denver. I was lying down facing south, and the flash lit up the
wall of one of the fairgrounds building in front of me. I actually
shut my eyes, thinking it was a car approaching on county road 45 :-(
After maybe one second I thought `Nooooooo!', looked north and saw the
end of the fireball. The trail glowed for over a minute.

Overall, a so-so to average shower.

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--Pierre Asselin, Westminster, Colorado
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