The best Leonid show is yet to come?

Two astronomers predict that the Leonid meteor shower will be more dazzling in 2001 and 2002 than it was this year.

1999. Lunar Leonid meteors. Circular of the International Astronomical Union. November 26.

Cowen, R. 1999. Dust from long ago made Leonid fireballs. Science News 155(May 1):277.

Some good Web sites for additional information and pictures relating to the 1999 Leonid meteor shower and future events include: http://www.arm.ac.uk/leonid/last1999.html, http://www.leonidslive.com/, http://www.leonids.com/1999_images/1999_images.html, http://www.spacescience.com/newhome/headlines/ast22nov99_1.htm, and http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/watch.html.

David W. Dunham
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Group SRM
Building 4, Room 134
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Brian G. Marsden
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Rob McNaught
Australian National University
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Private Bag, Weston Creek Post Office
Weston, ACT 2611
Australia

Donald K. Yeomans
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mailstop Code 301-150
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 357. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.