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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 10:24:33 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 16:55:20 GMT -6
From article above
April 22: The Lyrid meteor shower
Rather favorable circumstances are expected for this year’s Lyrid meteor shower, predicted to be at maximum this morning. The radiant, located near the brilliant bluish-white star Vega, rises in the northeast about the time evening twilight ends, and viewing will improve until light from the last-quarter moon begins to interfere just after 2 a.m. your local time.
Under the best conditions, 10 to 15 members of this shower can be seen in an hour by a single observer. The Lyrids remain about a quarter of their peak number for about two days. These bright meteors are associated with Thatcher’s Comet of 1861.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 9, 2014 20:53:26 GMT -6
I've never heard of Thatcher's comet. I wonder how many comets there have been over the past 6 billion years and how many of their debris fields we are still zooming through? There must have been a bunch of them. I'm sure the debris would dissipate after a while though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 23:08:34 GMT -6
I've never heard of Thatcher's comet. I wonder how many comets there have been over the past 6 billion years and how many of their debris fields we are still zooming through? There must have been a bunch of them. I'm sure the debris would dissipate after a while though. I wonder how many times planet Earth has been bombarded by comets.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 23:11:34 GMT -6
From article above April 22: The Lyrid meteor showerRather favorable circumstances are expected for this year’s Lyrid meteor shower, predicted to be at maximum this morning. The radiant, located near the brilliant bluish-white star Vega, rises in the northeast about the time evening twilight ends, and viewing will improve until light from the last-quarter moon begins to interfere just after 2 a.m. your local time. Under the best conditions, 10 to 15 members of this shower can be seen in an hour by a single observer. The Lyrids remain about a quarter of their peak number for about two days. These bright meteors are associated with Thatcher’s Comet of 1861. There are times when more than 15 or 20/hr. can be seen. There have been about 100/hr. seen before.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 9, 2014 23:11:34 GMT -6
I've never heard of Thatcher's comet. I wonder how many comets there have been over the past 6 billion years and how many of their debris fields we are still zooming through? There must have been a bunch of them. I'm sure the debris would dissipate after a while though. I wonder how many times planet Earth has been bombarded by comets. I'm sure some have hit us over the gazillions of years we've been here. There are plenty of large meteor craters on the surface of the planet. Most were probably caused by asteroids but some could have been comets. The good news is that the more time that goes by the fewer large chunks of stuff there is out there waiting to plow into us. It's still going to happen again sooner or later though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 23:17:01 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Apr 9, 2014 23:30:30 GMT -6
I wonder what that meteor that exploded over Russia would have looked like if viewed from space? Do you know if any of or satellites or astronauts got any photos or video of it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 23:36:45 GMT -6
Not sure but it's worth looking into. You'd think one of the many sats would've caught it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 1:13:06 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Apr 11, 2014 19:39:50 GMT -6
I couldn't tell what was going on in that video. The picture you posted in the center is kind of cool though. I knew somebody must have saw that thing from somewhere up there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 14:29:59 GMT -6
If my memory is correct, Mars should be fairly close to the moon tonight from Earth's perspective. Edit : Oops ! My memory failed me,,,it will be close tomorrow night (Sunday).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 23:44:40 GMT -6
From article above April 22: The Lyrid meteor showerRather favorable circumstances are expected for this year’s Lyrid meteor shower, predicted to be at maximum this morning. The radiant, located near the brilliant bluish-white star Vega, rises in the northeast about the time evening twilight ends, and viewing will improve until light from the last-quarter moon begins to interfere just after 2 a.m. your local time. Under the best conditions, 10 to 15 members of this shower can be seen in an hour by a single observer. The Lyrids remain about a quarter of their peak number for about two days. These bright meteors are associated with Thatcher’s Comet of 1861. Reminder update : Tonight is the peak night for the Lyrid meteor shower. Look to the East/Northeast. You will see a bright blue star called Vega. It will have 4 or 5 dimmer stars visible underneath. This is the point of origin. The constellation name is Lyra. This will continue for the next few nights. I have seen some good activity with this the past few nights so it may be a good one this time around. Enjoy !
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Post by lois on Apr 26, 2014 21:36:44 GMT -6
From article above April 22: The Lyrid meteor showerRather favorable circumstances are expected for this year’s Lyrid meteor shower, predicted to be at maximum this morning. The radiant, located near the brilliant bluish-white star Vega, rises in the northeast about the time evening twilight ends, and viewing will improve until light from the last-quarter moon begins to interfere just after 2 a.m. your local time. Under the best conditions, 10 to 15 members of this shower can be seen in an hour by a single observer. The Lyrids remain about a quarter of their peak number for about two days. These bright meteors are associated with Thatcher’s Comet of 1861. Reminder update : Tonight is the peak night for the Lyrid meteor shower. Look to the East/Northeast. You will see a bright blue star called Vega. It will have 4 or 5 dimmer stars visible underneath. This is the point of origin. The constellation name is Lyra. This will continue for the next few nights. I have seen some good activity with this the past few nights so it may be a good one this time around. Enjoy ! Cliff. I missed everything. the eclipse... now all the meteor showers. Soon as one begins we cloud up .. up here. Then the day after we are full sun again.. Don't tell me anything for the next two days as we are going to be storms. You are included with this nice weather event.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 17:35:28 GMT -6
Reminder update : Tonight is the peak night for the Lyrid meteor shower. Look to the East/Northeast. You will see a bright blue star called Vega. It will have 4 or 5 dimmer stars visible underneath. This is the point of origin. The constellation name is Lyra. This will continue for the next few nights. I have seen some good activity with this the past few nights so it may be a good one this time around. Enjoy ! Cliff. I missed everything. the eclipse... now all the meteor showers. Soon as one begins we cloud up .. up here. Then the day after we are full sun again.. Don't tell me anything for the next two days as we are going to be storms. You are included with this nice weather event. Sorry you missed it Lois. There will be more this year and this one should still be partially active for a few more days. This one had some bright ones. Something caught my eyes through the trees while watching this one. It was just an extremely bright flash. It could have been a meteor, but I was watching close and didn't see one shoot that way. The weather is active here. There have been tornadoes spotted in several places throughout the state. I wanna see one !
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Post by skywalker on Apr 27, 2014 18:49:11 GMT -6
Dude, I think you've been hanging around me too much. I would love to see a tornado. I've almost been sucked up by four of them but I haven't gotten a good look at one yet. It's always either been too dark or too rainy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 19:48:10 GMT -6
Dude, I think you've been hanging around me too much. I would love to see a tornado. I've almost been sucked up by four of them but I haven't gotten a good look at one yet. It's always either been too dark or too rainy. Believe it or not, as I write this, we are under a tornado warning (quite common here and probably there too). The sirens are going off and the wind is kicking,,, it sounds like WWIII out there. Nice nimbos. I've seen a few tornadoes and have been caught directly in one while storm chasing,,,,,,, my Corsica I had then took a beating ,,, so did the tree next to me and a farm down the road . The house lost it's roof and it knocked their silo over in two . I enjoy watching them as long as no one gets hurt or loses property.
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