Posted on 05/24/2014 10:56:17 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
“Listening” to Meteors – Radio Detection
http://www.meteorwatch.org/science-observing/listening-to-meteors-radio-detection/
Live audio feed with instructions.
http://topaz.streamguys.tv/~spaceweather/
THE MSFC ONLINE METEOR RADAR
(two audio streams here.)
http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/nasameteorradar.html
ROFLMAO!
Settled science.
Listening to it right now and they are still coming in.
Came’n’leftwhatadud’s
LOL!
Nothing on the Big Island, and it was a beautiful, star-studded night.
“Meteor showers are like the weather. They are a little bit hard to predict,” said Paul Wiegert, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario.
What? The Global Warmists can predict things a century in advance.
Plagiarist ;)
We had cloudy, overcast skies with rain showers, so there was nothing for us to miss. I’d rather have the rain. However, I was going to set up the telescope to watch meteorites hitting the moon.
I went out to look and, instead, saw something I found to be *far* more spectacular...a dark back yard filled with countless fireflies. (I just moved back to West TN after having lived in other parts of the country for the past 30 years - I figured it was time to get away from the city).
Oh ... that’s where all the fireflies went. I’ve been wondering since there are a lot fewer than when I was a kid.
Cloudy and cool in my location, too!
lol
If you like your meteor showers you can keep your meteor showers...period!
LOL!
It was global warming that ruined it.
I was looking for on-line reports of lunar meteorite impacts associated w/ this shower, but didn’t find much.
Some prior articles stated that the Moon’s waning crescent phase would make it favorable for these events, but it seemed to me that a waxing crescent phase —just after New— would be better, where the leading (visible) Terminator was plowing into the stream...
I did see one that was definitely not sporadic and part of the shower, falling under Polaris, at least -1 magninude, and left a train. I MAY have seen another one, that was a bright spot of light that brightened then dimmed. This is a fairly rare event, because that type of meteor is basically aligned right at you! But, generally the thing was generally a complete dud.
I blame this on myself. Conditions were perfect. Had it been cloudy here, or had I NOT looked for them, it would have been spectacular, a once-in-200 years event...:)
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