Oracle released a patch for the issue in October but it was incomplete, he said in an e-mail to Ars that was later p ublished to the Bugtraq mailing list.
Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said by e-mail that the shooting stars would be visible after about 11 p.m. in each time zone in the United States, with the best viewing time from 3 a.m. until dawn.