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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (36497)	11/17/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I was up but it was still drizzly where I live and I would have had to drive a hundred miles to get out of it. Admiring your enterprise and interest; I am sorry to report that I have a friend who is a professional astronomer and astronomy educator who evinced no interest in the Leonids. 33 years ago, however, I was living within a local call of Fred Whipple, whom I called, and he was lively and helpful--though that time it was cloudy, too, and the big shower was seen out West. To me, Leonid-watching is a sign of great distinction! I was once in the mid-path of a total eclipse and cars and trucks were barreling down a nearby highway turning on their lights to get around the inconvenience. Some of my academic colleagues made fun of me for going sixty miles to see it.