Johnson Space Center's Leonids Optical Observations

The 1998 Leonids Meteor Shower was videoed by NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) personnel at Houston, Texas, and Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The videos were screened and the Leonids Meteors in the videos were analyzed. The outcome of this effort was tables of counts per hour over the viewing period and a comparison to the Leonids Meteors Mass Distribution model used for risk assessment calculations associated with space shuttle missions. The comparison exhibited a difference between the observed data and the model.