Nov 17 1998
From The Space Library
Satellites survived the annual Leonid meteor storm with no major damage. Astronomers had predicted the storm would be the most intense in three decades, because Comet Tempel-Tuttle had swung closer to the Sun in February, as it does every 33 years, creating a greater-than-average amount of comet dust. Scientists had feared that particles traveling at 43 miles (69 kilometers) per second could shred satellites' solar arrays, damage sensitive instruments, or cause circuits to short.
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