Leonid Meteor Shower

Tristan Bennett writes "It looks as though those in Australia and America are in for a real treat. During the week before and after November 18, the Earth will pass through the trail of comet Tempel-Tuttle and be pelted with hail of sand-sized material. This year is supposed to be special, with astronomers predicting anywhere from 800 (North America) - 8,000 (Australia) meteors visible per hour at the storm's peak -- on November 18th."

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Also called a makeoutfest

[itsnotme]

Also about say, 20k horny couples will take this as a romantic moment to go outside and peruse romantic interests, aka necking. Headlines in the newspapers will read: World record broken for numbers of couples necking simultaneously!

But seriously, should be a cool event to watch for the people that'll get hte best views of it.. altho I'd have the people with movies like Deep Impact refrain from watching it during the event ;-)

On the other hand, movie theaters that base their movies on horror flicks should defnitedly show movies with meteoric impacts..

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American-Metric Wars (meteors per hour)

[npongratz]

This year is supposed to be special, with astronomers predicting anywhere from 800 (North America) - 8,000 (Australia) meteors visible per hour...

Oh, so in other words, the conversion rate between American and metric is 10 metric units for each American unit. ;-)