From: Bill Keel
Date:
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I was a 9-year-old proto-astronomer in Nashville, and my father (a
newspaper editor who apparently had gotten word of a possible meteor
display) hustled me out of bed at 3 am to see the shower (neither first nor 
last time I have frozen my tail staring into space). From some notes I made 
at the time, I saw nearly one meteor per second for much of the hour or 
two we watched. A few sketches I did then show exploding bolides, a
curved trail, and one meteor breaking into three parts. True what they
say about meteor storms - nothing else like them anywhere! Judging from
the paucity of reports from the eastern U.S., we were in one of the few 
sizeable holes in cloud cover that morning.

My older son is 9 this year, so a repeat performance would fit right in!

Bill Keel
Astronomy, University of Alabama