For information on the once-in-a-lifetime event,
the Alpha Aurigid Meteor Shower, see

http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/aurigids.html

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> For information on the once-in-a-lifetime event,
> the Alpha Aurigid Meteor Shower, see
>
> http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/aurigids.html
>

unfortunately, you need to travel to NorthAmerica to really enjoy it... (up 
to 160 per hour)

(this is a UK newsgroup [1]... 2-3 meteors per hour is not exactly a 
once-in-a-lifetime event ;-)

Jose

[1] and I see the crossposting to other European and an Australian group... 
nothing much will be visible from these two continents.

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In article , "Jose de las Heras"  wrote:
>
> wrote in message 
>news:1187754701.610537.62500@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
>> For information on the once-in-a-lifetime event,
>> the Alpha Aurigid Meteor Shower, see
>>
>> http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/aurigids.html
>
>unfortunately, you need to travel to NorthAmerica to really enjoy it... (up 
>to 160 per hour)
>
>(this is a UK newsgroup [1]... 2-3 meteors per hour is not exactly a 
>once-in-a-lifetime event ;-)
>
>[1] and I see the crossposting to other European [deleted] and an Australian group... 
>nothing much will be visible from these two continents.

Yeah.  We can expect about 1.2/hr in this part of Oz -- don't think 
I'll wait up for it!  :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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