vi) Where can we get more specialized information?

Check out the links on Lew Gramer's 'MeteorObs' website at: http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html

For more information on visual meteor observing, check out: http://www.imo.net/visual/major01.html

For those after more photographic information, check out: http://www.imo.net/photo/handbook/summary.pdf

For those radio buffs interested in trying some meteor recording by radio means, check out Shelby Ennis' website "High Speed Meteor Scatter and JT44 EME" at http://www.qsl.net/w8wn/hscw/hscw.html

Click on the "Hot News" icon for details on Leonids by radio. Even if you're not into the radio hobby, check out the cool graphics! Also, check out the IMO radio info at http://www.imo.net/radio/index.html

Links to other radio meteor sites can be found at http://www.imo.net/radio/other_sites.html

Details on the International Project for Radio Meteor Observation can be found at http://homepage2.nifty.com/~baron/leo02p.htm

An excellent book for reading about the Leonids is 'The Heavens on Fire: The Great Leonid Meteor Storms' by Mark Littmann, published by Cambridge University Press.

An interesting paper on the history of the Leonids that can be printed off from the web is 'The Leonid Meteor Shower: Historical Visual Observations' by Peter Brown, available at: http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/documents/1999-Leonids-Icarus.pdf

Extensive historical information on the Leonids can also be found on Gary Kronk's excellent website 'Comets and Meteor Showers' at http://comets.amsmeteors.org