From: Peter Brunone, Dallas, Texas Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:11:04 -0600 Fabulous earthgrazer seen outside Dallas I'm still fairly new to the meteor scene, so I hope I'm using that term correctly. At about 4:40AM Central US Time (GMT -6), my friends and I saw a fireball that took up approximately 20-30 degrees of sky. The trajectory marked it as a Leonid, but the most amazing thing about this one (to me) was that it skipped; right in the middle of its train, there was a gap of maybe 5-10 degrees. The train remained for perhaps 10 seconds, allowing me to savor the moment. All in all, it was a fairly tame night, but there were some nice bright ones, with an occasional burst of ~5 per second. The moon couldn't shut them all out; man, now I'm really psyched for the Geminids, and it'll also be a *great* time to observe Saturn (we spent about 20 minutes before 4:00 gazing at Jupiter and its four big moons... quite a sight).