Cosmic Dust
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A single meteor can be seen any night if you are lucky, but a shower of 100,000 an hour is surely a once in a lifetime event. November 1998 or 1999 could be that one-off occasion for a beautiful display which will be a hazard for the 500 or so spacecraft in orbit around Earth.
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This event was on Fri, 06 Nov 1998
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