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METEOR UPDATE:......
Spaceweather ^ | August 6th,2009

Posted on 08/06/2009 1:05:39 PM PDT by TaraP

METEOR UPDATE: Perseid meteors are now hitting Earth's upper atmosphere with a speed of 58 to 60 km/s, about 130,000 mph. That's the result of triangulation by a dual-station meteor monitoring system operated by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Last night the system detected five fireballs that provided the data for this speed estimate...

EARLY PERSEIDS: The Perseid meteor shower is slowly intensifying as Earth plunges deeper in Comet Swift-Tuttle's debris stream. On August 4th, amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft caught an early arrival using an all-sky camera at his observatory near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Click on the image to play a movie with sound effects:


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; endofworld; meteors; nightsky; perseid; sky
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To: ETL

Thanks for digging out the links! ;-)


41 posted on 08/06/2009 5:51:15 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Big_Harry

We LOVED “Day of the Triffids”!


42 posted on 08/06/2009 5:58:53 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: TaraP

Oh the joys of living in Seattle. If it’s not cloud cover, it’s really tall trees occluding the sky.


43 posted on 08/06/2009 6:03:17 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - victim of murdering regime)
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To: sionnsar

If you get out to Seattle’s outside surrounding suburbs, or close to the mountains on either side, you should be able to see stuff... of course if it’s a clear sky (which luckily in the summer here is mostly clear.)

The other night out in the East side, we were able to see the ISS fly over head bright and on schedule. :)

Good Luck!


44 posted on 08/06/2009 6:16:45 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: SuziQ

We tried to find it tonight without any luck, but will probably have to order it from Amazon. That was one of my favorite movies as a young man.


45 posted on 08/06/2009 8:09:48 PM PDT by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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To: Big_Harry
We got it a couple of years ago from Netflix. I read the book last year, too. It was very much like the series.

I like the actor, John Duttine, who played the lead in "Triffids". He also starred in a terrific Masterpiece Theatre series, "To Serve Them All My Days", about a man who started out teaching at, and ended up serving as Headmaster of an English public school for boys.

46 posted on 08/06/2009 8:26:24 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

That is definitely going into our film library!


47 posted on 08/07/2009 3:51:16 AM PDT by Big_Harry ( Thank God I am an "Infidel"!)
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