Posted on 11/11/2001 6:40:39 AM PST by blam
Violent meteor storm heads for Earth
A violent meteor storm is edging closer to Earth.
Space Shuttle flights are being cancelled and astronauts in the International Space Station are bracing themselves.
It's set to be the most powerful meteor storm to hit in decades.
Some of the 600 communications satellites orbiting Earth are also at risk.
The meteor is travelling at 160,000mph and will pass close to Earth later this week.
Nasa has already taken steps to protect the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
And the three astronauts in the space station are set to make their final space walk until the storm has passed.
The cosmic fireworks will begin as the Earth begins to cut across the orbit of Comet Temple-Tuttle, and into the blizzard of meteors.
The shower known as the Leonids, is an annual event but this year Earth will cut across an especially dense part of it.
Some parts of the world will be able to see the spectacular light show in the sky.
Story filed: 11:00 Sunday 11th November 2001
Observers in North America, Hawaii, Australia and Asian countries along the Pacific Rim will be favored for the best views of the 2001 Leonids. Meteor rates in those places could climb as high as 8000 per hour -- not quite as intense as the 1966 storm, but more than enough to make a sky watcher's jaw drop.
2001 Leonid Forecasts
THE PLACE
THE TIME
THE FORECAST (ZHR)
North America
9:00 - 11:00 UT
Sunday Morning, Nov 18th:
4:00 - 6:00 a.m. in New York
1:00 - 3:00 a.m. in Los Angeles
800 - 4000 per hour
California, Hawaii, Samoa
11:00 - 15:00 UT
Sunday Morning, Nov 18th:
3:00 - 7:00 a.m. in Los Angeles
1:00 - 5:00 a.m. in Hawaii
100 - 1000 per hour
Australia, Indonesia, Japan, east Asia
17:00 - 19:30 UT
Monday Morning, Nov 19th:
0100 - 03:30 a.m. in Hong Kong
0200 - 04:30 a.m. in Tokyo
800 - 8000 per
beat me to it- had already copied, was scrolling down. some folks are too dumb to breed.
Oh my! It'll be high noon in London the day of the Leonids.
Will we be able to see them if I use my welder's glass?
If it's cloudy, I guess they will be visible after they
break through the clouds. (TIC)
'And then in his anger the immortal God who dwells on high shall hurl from the sky a fiery bolt on the head of the unholy: and summer shall change to winter in that day.'Because the seasons are reversed from the northern hemisphere to the southern, that change could occur from a polar shift ...a reversal of poles, the earth reeling like a drunken man.
Isa 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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Isa 24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
>Leonid meteor shower is due to hit on the morning of November 18th for North America.
Oh, incidentally, in Bible Numerics (which is NOT numerology), the number 18 stands for Judgment...or two times 9 which is finality.
Small I expect. Some believe that we took some pretty good hits when these 'tails' were young and the earth went through them. Most think we've (the Earth) already taken the big hits from previous (pre-history) passes.
'HEY HEY, HO HO, THE VIOLENT METEOR STORM HAS GOT TO GO'!
(let's tell them that hale/bopp did a u-turn and is coming to pick them up)
That's the one with the flying saucer hiding behind it, right?
This of course does not mean it cannot happen. I think if it does, it is a rare occurrence at best.
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