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Leonid Meteor Shower Spectacular in Some Places

Aired November 19, 2002 - 06:38   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The sky is falling. Not really.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Almost.

COSTELLO: Yes.

MYERS: In some spots, it may have looked like it, I hope.

COSTELLO: The Leonid meteor shower show went on, and it was spectacular, at least -- well, it was spectacular in some places; in others it was nothing.

MYERS: In some places, it was only above the clouds, unfortunately, and some of them moved in from the Great Lakes right on down to parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

But our Ann Kellan was out there, and she said every time the TV turned on -- the camera turned on, the clouds parted, at least we hope.

ANN KELLAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The skies would clear. The lights went on, the skies cleared. It was great. We -- unfortunately, when we were on camera, we couldn't shoot what we were seeing, but we did see some great stars, didn't we?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

KELLAN: It worked out great. It was a good show.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was beautiful.

KELLAN: It was a good show.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was great, yes.

KELLAN: And we had us to thank, because every time we were on, the skies cleared. But it was -- we had a...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.

KELLAN: You're welcome. It was a full moon, so you had that, too, as well, right?

I should say this is the Georgia State University astronomy club, and they have been up all night to see the show.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes!

KELLAN: Hot coffee, lots of coffee. This is what students do on their time off. I think in like an hour they're supposed to be in class, but let's not go there.

On the West Coast, though, actually, Todd, you were saying that people can still go out and take a look.

TODD HENRY, ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR: Yes, you should still go out and take a look. You never know when the next bright one is going to be there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

HENRY: So, there's still a chance.

KELLAN: Yes, they don't get as good a show, though, right?

HENRY: No, the peak has officially passed now, and we definitely saw it happen. So -- but there's still one out there that they could see.

KELLAN: OK, so how would you rate this show compared to past Leonid meteor showers?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I didn't see last year's. Last year's was great; this year's, the peak was fabulous, but then I didn't see the peak last year. It was a great show, though.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was a very good show, yes.

KELLAN: This year, you would say it was OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

KELLAN: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We saw a lot more meteors than you normally would.

KELLAN: But they were saying thousands -- we would see thousands an hour. I didn't quite see that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, during the peak, you saw one about every second, but that peak was for about two or three minutes. And so... KELLAN: And unfortunately, we had a little cloud cover.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, and the cloud cover hurt. But if you took those, you know, one or two every second -- every couple of seconds, and thought about how many that would make it an hour, yes, you'd have a couple of thousand.

KELLAN: OK, so we're giving it an OK rating, and unfortunately, if you missed this one, you won't see it again for another, what, 99 years.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

KELLAN: Yes, because...

COSTELLO: Ann?

KELLAN: Yes.

COSTELLO: One happened every second, and we didn't get any pictures?

KELLAN: We had clouds here, Carol.

MYERS: Yes.

KELLAN: It was cloudy. Tell them it was cloudy.

MYERS: Ann, we know...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was cloudy, Carol, very cloudy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it was.

MYERS: We know the Leonid is not coming back for 99 years or whatever that is, but what about the Persia meteor shower? When's the next one, the big one coming through there? What's the next one they're excited about?

KELLAN: The next -- when's the next meteor shower you're excited about? I know we had the Persia...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Persia is in August.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In August.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next August, that's the one.

KELLAN: So, there's not another one between now and then, huh?

HENRY: There are some -- there are a few meteor showers in between then. There's a lot, you know, once every month or so. But the next big one is certainly in August -- the beginning of August.

MYERS: All right.

KELLAN: So, we all come back here and hang out and start...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

KELLAN: And we won't be wrapped up as much, because it will be August, so it will be great weather.

COSTELLO: That will be much nicer. I bet none of those kids are going to class this morning, Ann.

KELLAN: How many are going to class today? Yes, yes, right.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes, right.

KELLAN: Are you going to be teaching today? You're the professor.

HENRY: No, I taught yesterday. I taught yesterday.

KELLAN: He taught yesterday. He's taking the day off.

COSTELLO: Oh!

MYERS: I like that.

COSTELLO: Hey, Ann Kellan, thanks for the great job this morning -- we appreciate it.

MYERS: Thank you.

KELLAN: Oh, we had a lot of fun. Thank you.

COSTELLO: We certainly...

MYERS: She's a good sport, getting up so early for us and driving all the way down there.

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Aired November 19, 2002 - 06:38   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The sky is falling. Not really.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Almost.

COSTELLO: Yes.

MYERS: In some spots, it may have looked like it, I hope.

COSTELLO: The Leonid meteor shower show went on, and it was spectacular, at least -- well, it was spectacular in some places; in others it was nothing.

MYERS: In some places, it was only above the clouds, unfortunately, and some of them moved in from the Great Lakes right on down to parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

But our Ann Kellan was out there, and she said every time the TV turned on -- the camera turned on, the clouds parted, at least we hope.

ANN KELLAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The skies would clear. The lights went on, the skies cleared. It was great. We -- unfortunately, when we were on camera, we couldn't shoot what we were seeing, but we did see some great stars, didn't we?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

KELLAN: It worked out great. It was a good show.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was beautiful.

KELLAN: It was a good show.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was great, yes.

KELLAN: And we had us to thank, because every time we were on, the skies cleared. But it was -- we had a...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.

KELLAN: You're welcome. It was a full moon, so you had that, too, as well, right?

I should say this is the Georgia State University astronomy club, and they have been up all night to see the show.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes!

KELLAN: Hot coffee, lots of coffee. This is what students do on their time off. I think in like an hour they're supposed to be in class, but let's not go there.

On the West Coast, though, actually, Todd, you were saying that people can still go out and take a look.

TODD HENRY, ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR: Yes, you should still go out and take a look. You never know when the next bright one is going to be there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

HENRY: So, there's still a chance.

KELLAN: Yes, they don't get as good a show, though, right?

HENRY: No, the peak has officially passed now, and we definitely saw it happen. So -- but there's still one out there that they could see.

KELLAN: OK, so how would you rate this show compared to past Leonid meteor showers?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I didn't see last year's. Last year's was great; this year's, the peak was fabulous, but then I didn't see the peak last year. It was a great show, though.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

(CROSSTALK)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was a very good show, yes.

KELLAN: This year, you would say it was OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

KELLAN: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We saw a lot more meteors than you normally would.

KELLAN: But they were saying thousands -- we would see thousands an hour. I didn't quite see that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, during the peak, you saw one about every second, but that peak was for about two or three minutes. And so... KELLAN: And unfortunately, we had a little cloud cover.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, and the cloud cover hurt. But if you took those, you know, one or two every second -- every couple of seconds, and thought about how many that would make it an hour, yes, you'd have a couple of thousand.

KELLAN: OK, so we're giving it an OK rating, and unfortunately, if you missed this one, you won't see it again for another, what, 99 years.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

KELLAN: Yes, because...

COSTELLO: Ann?

KELLAN: Yes.

COSTELLO: One happened every second, and we didn't get any pictures?

KELLAN: We had clouds here, Carol.

MYERS: Yes.

KELLAN: It was cloudy. Tell them it was cloudy.

MYERS: Ann, we know...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was cloudy, Carol, very cloudy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it was.

MYERS: We know the Leonid is not coming back for 99 years or whatever that is, but what about the Persia meteor shower? When's the next one, the big one coming through there? What's the next one they're excited about?

KELLAN: The next -- when's the next meteor shower you're excited about? I know we had the Persia...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Persia is in August.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In August.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next August, that's the one.

KELLAN: So, there's not another one between now and then, huh?

HENRY: There are some -- there are a few meteor showers in between then. There's a lot, you know, once every month or so. But the next big one is certainly in August -- the beginning of August.

MYERS: All right.

KELLAN: So, we all come back here and hang out and start...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes!

KELLAN: And we won't be wrapped up as much, because it will be August, so it will be great weather.

COSTELLO: That will be much nicer. I bet none of those kids are going to class this morning, Ann.

KELLAN: How many are going to class today? Yes, yes, right.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes, right.

KELLAN: Are you going to be teaching today? You're the professor.

HENRY: No, I taught yesterday. I taught yesterday.

KELLAN: He taught yesterday. He's taking the day off.

COSTELLO: Oh!

MYERS: I like that.

COSTELLO: Hey, Ann Kellan, thanks for the great job this morning -- we appreciate it.

MYERS: Thank you.

KELLAN: Oh, we had a lot of fun. Thank you.

COSTELLO: We certainly...

MYERS: She's a good sport, getting up so early for us and driving all the way down there.

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