From: Gilberto Klar Renner, Porto Alegre, Brasil 
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:53:56 -0200


I am sending the first results of our visual Leonids observations that
were obtained in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil).
This is the best meteor shower yet watched by me until now.

The Leonid meteors had magnitudes similar to last year's, the brightest
was of magnitude -5.

Radio meteor observations were realized as well for some days before, during
and after the event. The results will be send later.

My group was made up of five people: Luiz Antonio da Silva Machado, Luiz
Augusto Leit?o da Silva, Clarice Azevedo Machado and Daniela Melissa Volkart
and myself.

The first period of observation was between 05:30 - 06:35 UT and we estimate
the ZHR=154 meteor/hour. In the second hour between 06:43 and 07:10 UT we
have a ZHR of 319 meteor/hour, assuming r=1.8. This was before the peak of
the storm.

Luiz Antonio da Silva Machado also photograped a Leonid of magntide -5 with train
of 1 minute of duration. He observed between 05:30 - 06:45 UT and the ZHR is
334 m/h, assuming r=1.8