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This year NASA forecasted not just a meteor shower, but a meteor “storm” with more than 2,000 meteors per hour visible in darker suburban areas, and approximately 700 meteors per hour visible in Boston. Kids from the Outing Club led the trek out to Soldiers Field, while other students ventured to the roof of the Science Center. Some dedicated astronomy students made a pilgrimage to Gloucester, so they could avoid the city lights and catch the 2,000 per hour show...
...beautiful, definitely worth it,” said Victoria Wobber ’05, who watched the meteor shower from the Weeks Memorial Footbridge, which spans the Charles River between Winthrop House and the Business School...
From there, Wobber said, she was able to see a meteor streaking across the night sky every few minutes. “Some were really long,” she said, “and shot all the way across...
Although a Leonid meteor shower occurs every November, this year’s event was predicted to be much more robust than usual, with meteors falling at a “storm” rate of thousands per hour...
...students who got out to Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, on Massachusetts’s Cape Ann, saw not only the brilliant meteor shower, but also Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn...