Links to the 1998 Leonids
Sino-Dutch Leonid Expedition 1998 (Maintained by Casper ter Kuile)
DMS Leonids '98 meeting 980718
Public Observatory "Bussloo"
1. Professional websites
- Leonids 98 Meteor Outburst Mission Homepage (Dr. Peter Jenniskens)
- Understanding the Leonid Meteor Storms (The Aerospace Corporation)
- Leonids 98 Meteor Storm Hazard - Risk Assessment (Martin Beech, Peter Brown, J. Jones, A. R. Webster)
- Scientists announce plan to guide satellite operators through meteor storm (Andre Bellefeuille, CRESTech Communications Manager)
- Threats to Communications Satellites (Dr. Daniel Glover and Shannon I. Steinfadt)
- Estimation of Meteoroid Flux for the Upcoming Leonid Storms (William Cooke)
- The Leonids (Astronomy On-Line)
- Leonids 98 Live webcast from ChiangMaiNews.com
- The Leonids are Coming! The Leonids are Coming! (ScienceNewsOnLine)
2. IMO and US websites
- Leonids 98 1998 Meteor Shower Calendar (International Meteor Organisation)
- Observing Hints for the 1998 Leonid Return (IMO: Rainer Arlt, Sirko Molau, Malcolm Currie)
- Meteor Storms: Leonids and Draconids (Meteorobs: Lew @ Karin Gramer)
- Leonid Meteor Shower Facts! (The American Meteor Society)
- Leonids (Gary Kronks Meteor Page)
- Leonids 1998: Will the Lion Show Its Fangs? (Bill Cooke)
3. Sky & Telescope websites
- Leonids 98 SKY Online's Meteor Page
- The Leonid Meteors: Waiting and Watching (Alan MacRobert)
- The Leonids: King of the Meteor Showers (Joe Rao)
- The Leonids' Last Hurrah? (Joe Rao)
- Leonids 1833: The Night of Raining Fire (Richard Sanderson)
- The Return of the Leonid Meteors (Joe Rao)
4. Amateur websites
- The Leonid Meteors (Royal Greenwich Observatory)
- Leonid Meteoric Cloud (R. Nakamura, Information Processing Center, Kobe Univ.)
- Leonids 98 (olivier.staiger@span.ch)
- Real-time All Sky Video (Franklin E. Miller, Colorado)
- live CCD images from Japan (Media i Corporation)
- Leonids 1998 / Leoniden 1998 (Jurgen Rendtel)
- Informationen zu den Leoniden-Beobachtertreffen (Juergen Rendtel)
- Calculations Compute Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight For Cities
- Stromversorgung in Sibirien (Georg Dittie)
- Conrad Electronics
5. Weather information
- Leonid Weather Meteosat IR - false colour : south-east Asia
- Leonid Weather Meteosat IR - false colour : south-east Asia
- Leonid Weather Meteosat GMS-5 hi-res south-east Asia
- Leonid Weather Meteosat GMS-5 hi-res globe
- Leonid Weather Meteosat GMS-5 VIS hi-res globe mapped
- Leonid Weather Meteosat GMS-5 IR hi-res globe mapped
- Leonid WeatherFull resolution (4 km) GMS-5 pictures
- Leonids 1998 Wettermeldungen mögicher Beobachtungsorte bei den Leoniden 1998 (Andre Knoeffel)
- China : GMS-5, Visual, Hi-Res, Mapped
- China : GMS-5, Infra-red, Hi-Res, Mapped
- WorldClimate : the weather at your favourite location
- CLIMVIS : the World's Weather Data Archive
- CNN worldweather - actual & forecast: Beijing
- CNN worldweather - actual & forecast: Delingha
- The Weather Underground - actual & forecast: Beijing
- The Weather Underground - actual & forecast: Delingha
- De weercourant Beijing: zbaa; Lanzhou: ZLLL
6. Country information on China
- CIA World Factbook: China
- Lonely Planet: Destination China
- Lonely Planet: Destination Tibet & Qinghai
- Lonely Planet: Destination Eastern China
- Lonely Planet: Destination Beijing
- VNC: China
- China Vista
- China Vista: Welcome to Nanjing
- China Vista: Hebei
7. Chinese Astronomy websites
- CERNET : China Education and Research Network
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CAS : Chinese Astronomical Society
- BAO : Beijing Astronomical Observatory
- Xinglong : Astronomical Station
- PMO : Purple Mountain Observatory
- PMO : Picture of the Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking
- Homepage of Dr. Jin Zhu of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO)
- SCAP : BAO Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program
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