To: messierhunter
And we came up with this complicated and obtuse name how?
Camelblablatoids? Really?
7 posted on
05/21/2014 9:29:31 AM PDT by
Adder
(No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
To: Adder
It's the name of the constellation that will appear at the center of the shower.
Camelopardalis.
-PJ
12 posted on
05/21/2014 9:42:06 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Adder
“... name is derived from early Rome, where it was thought of as a composite creature, described as having characteristics of both a camel and a leopard. Nowadays we call such a creature a giraffe!”
13 posted on
05/21/2014 9:44:17 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
To: Adder
Looks like “Muslim outreach” to me.
31 posted on
05/21/2014 11:58:15 AM PDT by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Adder
My 1848 Ackerman's Natural History shows a picture of a cameleopard--commonly known as a giraffe today.
Who knows when the constellation was named? But it is likely the meteor shower will be present in that part of the sky.
Ackerman antedates Origin of Species...
32 posted on
05/21/2014 12:02:11 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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