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Meteor showers 2023: When is the next one?

https://www.space.com/39469-best-meteor-showers.html

1 posted on 08/11/2023 9:48:32 PM PDT by metmom
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To: metmom

I was just outside watching for 15 minutes. Rousted out my family.

We saw a bunch of momentary flashes, plus on streak that last around a second, and another that must have been two seconds plus, and crossed nearly a quarter of the sky.


2 posted on 08/11/2023 10:19:12 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: metmom

Paiging Graham Hancock! Is this the year we should worry about?


3 posted on 08/11/2023 11:07:44 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: metmom

This is not “just” good for sky gazing, it does amazing things to radio waves.

Ham Operators look for them every year, some years the affect is much larger than others. At times in the lower range of the VHF band, the effect is the most noticeable.


6 posted on 08/12/2023 5:06:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: metmom

After reading paragraphs of much more than I wanted to know what you need to know is:

Best time, before sunup, 0300 or so onward.
Where, look to the NE

I don’t get the trend these days of authors thinking they need to write War and Peace with a preamble just as long to give a piece of information buried way down deep in the article in bits and pieces. Just get to the point.


10 posted on 08/12/2023 8:21:59 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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