At 12:02 AM 11/20/98 +0000, Alan Pickup wrote: >> This was probably a Leonid - it is not necessary for the radiant to >> be above the horizon to see shower meteors... > > What has been omitted from the above quotation of Mark Hanning-Lee's > original posting is the . . . radiant was some 35 degrees below Mark's > northern horizon. . . . I missed the angle - you're right that is unreasonably far for a Leonid to be pulled off its path. Probably a coincidence and not a Leonid. Regarding meteor/satellite sounds, I got a reference from Robert Matson to an article in the November issue of S&T with a couple paragraphs on=20 page 32 that mention the phenomena called 'electrophonic sound'. Bj=F6rn Gimle related a report of sounds during shuttle re-entry (humming lampposts?) - I've seen only one shuttle re-entry, and no sound except for the much delayed sonic boom. =20 Steve