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New Meteor Shower on Tap Tonight: How to See It (Friday & Saturday)
Discovery ^
| May 23, 2014
| by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
Posted on 05/23/2014 5:48:00 PM PDT by bd476
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To: bd476
It’s starting, because I just saw a few in central Mississippi.
21
posted on
05/23/2014 10:26:08 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
in Arizona I have not seen any but I am only watching in five minute chunks
22
posted on
05/23/2014 11:12:18 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Gowdy for Supreme Court)
To: KC Burke
I’m going back outside, and will be in and out as I get thirsty.
23
posted on
05/23/2014 11:13:19 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Ben out for the last 15 minutes in southern SC. Nothing yet.
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posted on
05/23/2014 11:31:36 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: bd476
Reports of only a few, mostly in the Midwest. Just reported that Ontario Canada is getting a pretty good shower.
25
posted on
05/23/2014 11:44:53 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Reports are a bust mostly everywhere. Even NASA TV has dropped coverage. Just got back in after 20 minutes. Nothing. The peak just passed.
26
posted on
05/24/2014 12:23:37 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: bd476
South Louisiana, been outside for a half an hour, zip so far...........RATS!
27
posted on
05/24/2014 12:26:54 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I just came back in from laying flat on my back on the ground.
I've got a high broken ceiling, maybe 20,000 ft whispy clouds with about 35 to 55 percent of the sky visible intermittent with stars.
I saw 5 this time, all very dim and burning up within a second to a second and a half.
One, directly overhead was not much more than a twinkly coming almost straight down.
Earlier the first one I saw was the brightest and the longest lasting, coming in from north to south and down at about a 45 degree angle and lasted for about 2 and a half seconds.
I'm headed outside again.
28
posted on
05/24/2014 12:50:12 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: bd476
Saw one weak one between 3:00\3:45....ISS looked cool though, nice and bright passing west to east.
29
posted on
05/24/2014 12:58:52 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: bd476
Overcast and raining in Connecticut. Just dang!
30
posted on
05/24/2014 12:59:33 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(I stand with the Bundy Family!)
To: bd476
Well, I drove all the way out to Sunset, TX from Fort Worth to try to escape the cloud cover. No dice. Dang it. I really wanted to see the shower.
:(
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posted on
05/24/2014 1:12:17 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: Yosemitest
Heard any reports from elsewhere? We got bunk here in North Texas.
32
posted on
05/24/2014 1:13:46 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: BuckeyeTexan
I just came in again.
I haven't seen anything this time since 02:50:12 GMT but a sliver of a rising moon through the high thin clouds.
33
posted on
05/24/2014 1:53:45 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
SE Texas reporting in. Zero meteor sightings, and 4 mosquito bites.
34
posted on
05/24/2014 2:37:30 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
To: bd476
Its 3.40 right now, I was up at 3.20 and have not saw even one, the sky is clear and bright.
To: All
Saw nothing in south Louisiana, big disappointment, going to bed.
36
posted on
05/24/2014 3:12:54 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: ravenwolf
My daughter and I drove an 1.25 hours to the east. Found a gravel road out in a field to park - one other car from Seattle area had found the same one. He had been there for an hour with no meteors.
From about 11:45 to 12:30 we saw 6-8 “normal” ones. From 12:30 to 12:45 we saw perhaps 15 “normal” ones, with a few of those pretty good.
Then my daughter saw a huge one that left a trail. (I caught the trail).
Then we both saw one that was very bright (orange) and left a pulsating trail - perhaps bouncing along the atmosphere as it burned up?
The final one was a very bright orange, with a comet-like orange tail about 2 fists (20 degrees?) long. REALLY COOL!
So got to see the stars, some regular meteors, three REALLY great ones (my daughter anyway). Plus got to listen to the frogs, the smell of hay, and she was reminded again of what crickets sound like. A good evening well spent. In spite of the lack of meteors.
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posted on
05/24/2014 3:14:46 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: eyedigress
I was correcting your English and politeness. Not proper to ssy me and my friends. Lol.
38
posted on
05/24/2014 3:18:58 AM PDT
by
amihow
To: VanDeKoik
Well I’m not sure about anyone else, but I think this was pretty much a bust.
To: 21twelve
My daughter and I drove an 1.25 hours to the east. Found a gravel road out in a field to park
Glad your drive wasn’t for nothing, at least you and your daughter got to see a few.
As a kid we used to sleep out side in the summer and lived in small towns or in the country so seems we saw falling stars all the time, so we just took it for granted that it happened all of the time.
I also must have seen the showers a time or two where there were more than one at a time.
This is the first time I have ever knew ahead of time that it was going to happen so I thought maybe I would see something spectacular, oh well....
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