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LEONID METEORS 1999
     A pronounced peak in Leonid meteor activity occurred for about
an hour centered on about Nov. 18d02h05m UT, agreeing very closely
with predictions by Asher (1999, MNRAS 307, 919) and McNaught and
Asher (1999, WGN 27, 85), which in turn suggest that the observed
activity represents debris ejected from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
three revolutions ago.  G. M. Hurst, Basingstoke, England, forwards
a report from J. Mason that observations by members of the British
Astronomical Association located north of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,
revealed as many as 50 Leonids/min for a few minutes around the
peak.  Numerous other visual reports from observers in Jordan,
Israel, Spain, and Portugal give similar results, as do data from
radar monitoring by P. Pridal and R. Stork (Ondrejov) and radio
monitoring by K. Suzuki (Toyokawa, Japan) and C. Steyaert (Mol,
Belgium).