In a message dated 11/19/2002 6:57:09 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I hope I'm not the only one on the list looking at this rare event. speaking > of which...this post has no mistakes. > Would love to have watched it . . . but it was cloudy here last night. And my husband wouldn't have appreciated it if I'd set the alarm for 3 a.m. to see whether it had cleared off at the time when the display would be peaking. The reason that it improves after midnight is that the shower, called the "Leonids" after the constellation Leo the Lion, appears to sprout out from that constellation. Leo doesn't rise until around midnight at this time of year. You'll all have to wait until around February or March to see that large pussycat in the sky during waking hours, and by then the meteor shower will have long since gone. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr