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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '1999-11-08T01:56:03'
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title: Recently discovered Comet Linear may
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Recently discovered Comet Linear [may produce a "suprise" meteor shower](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_509000/509520.stm) Thursday evening. Most meteor showers are caused by the earth passing through the path of a comet, and comet Linear passed by just 40 days ago. By the way, Comet Linear was discovered by [a telescope](http://www.ll.mit.edu/LINEAR/) in Socorro, NM (home of my [alma mater](http://www.nmt.edu)) searching for near-earth asteroids .