From: Mark Vints, Belgium
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 98 22:06:19 PST

Several observers on this list have already commented on the colorfull
display the Leonids are currently producing. Just a few notes on some
particular events I witnessed last night.

1.) I saw a stationary fireball in Leo's sickle, which left a green puff
of cloud (meteor train) that later faded to grey and drifted away. Could
this have been real color or just a perception effect? I did not see the
actual meteor directly, but turned because of a flash of light.

2.) Besides many colorful meteors, I saw one in particular which was a
bright blue color, which almost instantly shifted to green-yellow-orange-
red before fading. It looked to me as a black-body emitter would that
rapidly cools. Is this what happened, or was this just another physiological
 effect?