A Cosmic Display Worth Getting Up For

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By David Darman on Friday, November 16, 2001.
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Residents of New Hampshire will be treated to a cosmic show early Sunday morning. Between 4 and 6 am?..the earth will be passing through dust left behind by the Temple-Tuttle comet. The result will be a meteor shower that should be worth getting up for?.that?s according to UNH Space Physicist Eberhard Moebius.
Impress your friends with this fact: The Leonid shower comes from dust left by the Temple-Tuttle comet when it passed this way back in 1766.

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