Posted on 08/10/2020 6:59:11 PM PDT by metmom
Unbelievable savagery. Spain is on my bucket list. Thanks for posting.
I just don't buy this.
No other solar system objects always appear at the same location in the celestial sky; just these various meteor showers.
And if the earth truly passed through a cloud of debris, that debris would be attracted to the earth from all directions as we passed through it.
ML/NJ
The only time I was able to see a good meteor shower was about 1978, and it may have been the Perseids...don’t remember.
Laid out in ghe bed of my truck, had some couch cushions in it, had a beer and just watched. Now I wish I had brought a camera. At times I saw 5 or 6 at once. Incredible...finally crawled off to bed around midnight with more still flying around, had to be up for work at 6...
I’ve gone out and watched a few times since, never even saw one...not one...oh yeah, one last year...just one...
I was out last night until about midnight, when I fell asleep on the chaise.
I saw four really nice ones.
Then the moon rose and washed the sky out and I called it a night.
The moon will be coming up an hour later each night, so I’ll give it another go tonight, which is supposed to be better viewing anyways.
I can see that astronomy is not your forte.
Carry on.
If you don’t want to watch, then don’t.
You can see nothing.
I was explaining phases of the moon to my mother before I was five years old(or so she told me). I owned my first telescope before I was ten years old. My first trip into NYC without an adult was to the Haydn Planetarium when I was 11 years old. My mother took me out of school so I could observe transits of Mercury. I took multiple astronomy courses while pursuing my undergraduate degree. I've been in the path of three total eclipses. (Two successful; one obscured by clouds five minutes before totality. Picture I took from the 2017 total eclipse here.)
Smart a$$, why don't you tell me what other solar system phenomena always occurs at the same point on the celestial sphere? (Please don't tell me the Vernal Equinox!)
ML/NJ
Brag all you want, You clearly DON’T get how the meteor shower occurs.
Neither do you, apparently.
ML/NJ
I didn’t write the article.
If you have a problem with how it’s presented, take it up with them, or do it yourself if you think you know better and can do a better job.
Stop harassing me.
if you have a problem with how it’s presented,
You are the one harassing me; and I won't go away until you stop.
My problem isn't with how the article was presented. The author was just repeating the conventional wisdom about meteor showers.
I merely said that I do not understand the conventional wisdom for the reasons I stated.
You implied that this made me an astronomy ignoramus. So I asked you this simple question:
Smart a$$, why don't you tell me what other solar system phenomena always occurs at the same point on the celestial sphere? (Please don't tell me the Vernal Equinox!)You imply that you know so much but it would appear that you kent nichts, else you would have had the courtesy to answer my question.
ML/NJ
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