Tuttle cousins, If any Tuttles happen to be out with their children tonight watching the Leonid meteor shower (supposed to be the most spectacular in our lifetime) you will want to know that it is caused by the earth passing through the dust trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. The comet was named after Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle, who independently discovered the comet in 1866. The comet reappears every 33 years. There is a nice history of the comet and meteor shower at this link. http://www-space.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/history.html Other Tempel-Tuttle pages of interest: http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/solar_system/leonids/2001/index.html http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/Leonidsez.html Enjoy. Regards, Tom Stevenson -- http://www.GenealogySource.com