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Shooting stars hallucinated that night we were produced by a Leonid meteor storm that each 33 years show a peak of activity due to dust caused by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. It was announced in the media for that early 18 November 2001 but we did not know. Sky conditions, clear, dark as pitch, allowed us a privileged observation. Normally, in other stellar events are shooting stars go by 5 meteor when up to 400. That night there was a maximum ZHR rate 1.500 meteoros/hora, although the prognosis was that in East Asia could be between 4.000 a 8.000. And 1999 there was a peak of 3.700 meteoros/hora. Its ilmeteors / hour produced on contact with atmospheric particles such sand or marble dust cosmic, the size of a pea, more than 100 miles high, temperatures reaching 1.650 degrees centigrade. I will never know how many of those shooting stars lit the way we. In any case, that night was not to tell but to enjoy admiring.
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