Otherwise, lie on a blanket with a pillow. It is easy to get a stiff neck if one is sitting vertically or standing. Dress warmly and bring extra clothes. You will see streaks of light shooting across the black sky. If you are very lucky, you will witness a fireball, a very bright meteor with a small disk.
Some fireballs break into several fragments.
For the second peak at 8 UT, viewing shoud be good in North America. However, there is a lot of uncertainty in this prediction. In 1998, the predicted peak time was off by 16 hours and the best viewing was in Europe instead of Northeast China. If a meteor is sufficiently large, part of it may survive and strike the Earth, in which case it is called a meteorite. Meteorites provide astronomers with useful information about our solar system.