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Leonid meteor shower provides great show

November 19, 1999 By admin

The heavens may be brilliant with cascading snippets of light tonight. A dense Leonid Meteor storm appears at least once every 30 years, and is expected to put on quite a show this evening. Some midwestern observers saw a preview last night. Mike Sibbernsen the director of the planetariam at the Grout Museum in Waterloo.says as many as one-thousand shooting stars might be seen tonight in some locations.Sibbernsen says you won’t see it if you simply look out the living room window, you have to look up to the east away from city lights.

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