I was at Monte Cristo last week. We saw quite a few fireballs. Most of them were between 11pm and 1am. We also had a bunch of meteors right before dawn. One thing that I was curious about was that we had two showers going on at the same time. The other one was coming from Aquarius. This basically caused meteors to be going in opposite directions. I had always thought of a meteor shower as the Earth was going through the debris trail from a comet and that if you looked in the direction of the radiant you were looking the direction that the Earth was traveling through the galaxy. Since Persius is the in the north and Aquarius is in the south, how does that work? Is our actual travel direction in between them somewhere? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Wiggins [mailto:paw@trilobyte.net] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 2:40 AM To: utah astronomy listserve Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Perseids 2:30 a.m. and lots of clear moonless skies but not much in the way of meteors. Anyone else having better luck? Patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy