Posted on 11/13/2010 3:17:38 PM PST by ColdOne
Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): Astronomy enthusiasts will be treated with best viewing of the Leonid meteor shower in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, says the StarDate magazine.
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The Leonid meteor shower, called so because it happens around and near the constellation Leo, is leftovers from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle that scattered space dust around the year 1533. The Earth moving through that dust makes these fantastic "shooting stars" throughout the sky. The shower was most visible in Asia and said to have produced hundreds of "shooting stars" per hour, 300 to 500.
And yes, I will hold your beer while you do that.
/johnny
That picture reminds me of a bad night of drinking I had when I was 17.
Mr. ColdOne and I used to watch it all the time when we lived in California. It is always cloudy for us now.. It is a beautiful thing to watch.
Unfortunately there will be a bright moon drowning them out
/johnny
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Otherwise, you're talking grain-of-sand size or so that are usually quite fleeting.
I'll go so far as to say that you won't even have to bother covering that beer from any meteor ash...
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We get how many tons of dust raining down on us every day from orbit?
But to go outside and stand still and point at the pretty rocks falling this way just seems silly.
There is a bell curve on object size. Yes, most will be dust, some will be golf-ball sized.
But considering my luck.... the golf ball would be a VW Golf size object.
I'll stay indoors like the good Lord intended, thankyouverymuch...
/johnny
Came back to the barracks from the E club at Camp Lejeune. Stepped out of the air conditioned club into 90 degree humidity, found my way somehow back to the barracks - second floor, top bunk, and hung on hard all night trying to keep the dang thing from tipping over. Haven’t done anything like that since and that was over 40 years ago.
OMG look at all the chinese missile launches that night!
Freegards
Ah, to be young and stupid and bounce back so quickly.
Not for overtime wages. Never again. ;)
/johnny
For those haven't seen it, the IMDb plot synopsis: "A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people. In the film version, however, the Triffids are not experimental plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower."
Hint: Humans, the other white meat.
For those haven't seen it, the IMDb plot synopsis: "A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind. In the original novel, this chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people. In the film version, however, the Triffids are not experimental plants. Instead they are space aliens whose spores have arrived in an earlier meteor shower."
Hint: Humans, the other white meat.
Never could figure out why a brain-dead non-entity like Brezhnev should have a meteor shower named for him.
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