Louis Aston Knight paintings

Louis Aston Knight paintings
Leon Bazile Perrault paintings
This could be the last opportunity for watching an impressive meteor storm in a dark sky for decades to come," said Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth Object program office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.Next year's Leonids could have been impressive, but they're scheduled to occur during a full moon, which will obscure their brilliance.Some Predict More Modest ShowAlthough Yeomans, Jenniskens and other astronomers agree this year's Leonids show looks to be spectacular, other predictions are less grand.For example, Robert Cooke of NASA Ames' Research Center believes the meteor shower will provide an average display of about one every 10 seconds in the United States."It's sort of like talking to weathermen," said Cooke, who is now in Hawaii, since his calculations show the best display will appear above that state. "You get a different answer from each one."