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Comet's Debris Promises Celestial Light-Show
Ananova ^ | 8-11-2002

Posted on 08/11/2002 11:35:09 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 08/11/2002 11:35:09 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Anyone know how good the viewing will be in the US Midwest?
2 posted on 08/11/2002 11:37:12 AM PDT by Notforprophet
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To: blam
Did Asteroids And Comets Turn The Tides Of Civilization?
3 posted on 08/11/2002 11:37:14 AM PDT by blam
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To: RightWhale; RadioAstronomer; callisto
FYI
4 posted on 08/11/2002 11:40:36 AM PDT by blam
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Well I liked your post! Very interesting. Did you ever read Igor Stravinsky's "Rites of August" or his "World's In Collision" series of books? parsy.
5 posted on 08/11/2002 11:42:59 AM PDT by parsifal
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"Did you ever read Igor Stravinsky's "Rites of August" or his "World's In Collision" series of books? "

No. (I scanned through World's In Collision some years ago)

6 posted on 08/11/2002 11:54:37 AM PDT by blam
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Disaster That Struck The Ancients
7 posted on 08/11/2002 11:58:34 AM PDT by blam
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To: Notforprophet
Anyone know how good the viewing will be in the US Midwest?

Check for yourself: www.SpaceWeather.com

8 posted on 08/11/2002 11:58:49 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
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To: PatrickHenry; longshadow; RadioAstronomer
Grab a sleeping bag and camp out for the night ping!
9 posted on 08/11/2002 11:59:36 AM PDT by Scully
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Grab a sleeping bag and camp out for the night ping!

Does anyone know if the infamous Seventh Planet will be in the sky at the same time? If so, the conjunction of that planet with the meteor shower will be a powerful omen.

10 posted on 08/11/2002 12:04:01 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: blam
the Perseid particles hit the top of the Earth's atmosphere at 135,000 mph

That's near the top limit of speed for incoming objects that are part of the solar system already. If the main object [6 miles] ever hits earth it could vaporize a significant part of a continent.

11 posted on 08/11/2002 12:04:34 PM PDT by RightWhale
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This from Frostydrew:

Uranus rises at 7:50 PM and sets at 6:17 AM. Uranus, in Capricorn, is in the eastern sky this evening. Uranus will spend 2002 oscillating along the border between Capricorn and Aquarius before moving totally into Aquarius in 2003. Uranus looks like a dim green star. Uranus is just on the borderline of visibility to the unaided eye. In practice, you'll need binoculars to see it.

What sort of omen did you have in mind?

12 posted on 08/11/2002 12:11:27 PM PDT by Scully
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Not Stravinsky, he wrote the Rite of Spring, the great symphony.

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote Worlds In Collision, postulating his idea that the inner planets were not always in such regular and good-neighborly orbit.

13 posted on 08/11/2002 12:13:37 PM PDT by jwfiv
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Doesn't look like I'll get to see this one- it's really overcast outside :-(

Maybe I'll get to see the asteroid on the 18th though, fingers crossed.

14 posted on 08/11/2002 12:31:46 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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Index Bump
15 posted on 08/11/2002 12:37:02 PM PDT by Free the USA
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To: Scully
What sort of omen did you have in mind?

I'm not sure. But there's an old saying: "Nothing good ever comes from the Seventh Planet."

16 posted on 08/11/2002 1:00:54 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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If so, the conjunction of that planet with the meteor shower will be a powerful omen.

No doubt it has great import with respect to the "Sacred Geometry" and it's associated "vibrational resonances" depicted in crop-circles. Be sure to alert the Perpetually Turgid One of this information....

17 posted on 08/11/2002 1:46:20 PM PDT by longshadow
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Be sure to alert the Perpetually Turgid One of this information....

I'm really afraid to ask about this...

18 posted on 08/11/2002 2:02:12 PM PDT by Scully
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I'm really afraid to ask about this.

You're dying to ask.

19 posted on 08/11/2002 2:04:05 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Ummm...I think this is a time for freepmail, LOL!
20 posted on 08/11/2002 2:10:59 PM PDT by Scully
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