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I was watching the Leonid Meteor shower in 2001 on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island. It was cold, quiet and a site to behold. I was on a small outcropping of rock above an eerily still ocean, with my back to a dense forest of Jack Pines. The meteors were streaking in sometimes several times a minute, and were nothing more than faint streaking points of light, while the larger bolides cut huge celestial gashes across the early morning sky, leaving long, brief, luminous trails of plasma in their wake.