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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Lyrid Meteor Shower

*Peak of activity will be the 22nd as Earth moves through the debris trail of Comet Thatcher.  They're predicting perhaps 6 meteors per hour, apparently:

Go outside two hours before dawn and watch the sky near the bright star Vega. You might see a dozen or more shooting stars before sunrise

Hmmmmm.  Seems a bit on the sparse side.  :-\

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)