From: Mohammad Odeh, Jordania Jordanian Astronomical Society Date: November 18, 06:18 UT It is 06:30 Am local time in Jordan, and JAS has just ended the observation. After a very quick discussion with the scientists who were observing from Jordan with JAS. We concluded that Jordan was one of the best locations to observe the Leonids '99 from ! Since a decrease of the activity was noticed before the beginning of dawn ! Nearly all the participants estimated the ZHR to be some how between 7000 - 10 000 !! More details and the opinion of the scientists will be added soon at our site http://www.jas.org.jo/leo99.html Wednesday - Thursday 17-18 November During night number of meteors kept increasing by both; radio and visual observations. After a very quick discussion with the scientists who were observing from Jordan with JAS. We concluded that Jordan was one of the best locations to observe the Leonids '99 from ! Where the preliminarily results show that the peak occurred around 02 AM (04 AM), which is about 40 minutes before the beginning of dawn (so the radiant was high at the peak). Also, the dawn didn't affect the observation because the activity decreased before the beginning of dawn ! Most the participants estimated the maximum ZHR (based on the preliminarily results) to be some how between 7000 - 10 000 !! * Total observed number of meteors was: Sana'a Abdo (JAS): 2100 meteors, during 4.0 hours effective time. Khalid Tell (JAS): 2375 meteors, during 3.6 hours effective time. Moh'd Odeh (JAS): 2916 meteors, during 4.3 hours effective time. Ahmad Baker (SCS): 3162 meteors, during about 5 hours effective time. * ZHR, time of maximum, and rates. Mr. Robert McNaught, based on one-minute interval, estimated the ZHR to be 7000 +/- 1000, and it occurred from Jordan at 02:04 +/- 2 minutes (UT). At maximum, McNaught observed 60 meteors per minute. Several observers agreed that during the maximum, about 7 meteors appeared simultaneously at once !! It was very hard to keep following and counting the unexpected large number of meteors during the maximum, and so many observers stopped recording, and just enjoyed the show !! Odeh observed 770 meteors from 02:00 - 02:14 UT ! Overdense meteors were so frequently heard by radio observation, before the time of the storm. Which was unfortunately stopped during the storm, because of a failure in the generator.