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To: mylife
Tonite it's at its closest point in its elliptical orbit around earth - won't happen again at full moon until 2016. The Geminid meteor shower is also tonite.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
255 posted on 12/12/2008 7:23:34 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

I thought the geminids were earlier in the season.

Maybe I am thinking of the leonids. Those are in autumn.

The sky is washed out here from the lights of the air field :(


264 posted on 12/12/2008 7:27:34 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ConorMacNessa

“Tonite it’s at its closest point in its elliptical orbit around earth - won’t happen again at full moon until 2016. The Geminid meteor shower is also tonite.”

Like I said before, The Canteen is edumakashunal! Did I spell that right?


266 posted on 12/12/2008 7:27:51 PM PST by Kirkwood
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