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*From Spaceweather.com:
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METEOR SHOWER: The Orionid meteor shower peaks on Thursday morning, Oct. 21st. If you're willing to wake up before sunrise, you can see pieces of Halley's Comet (the source of the Orionids) streaking among some lovely morning stars and planets: Venus, Saturn, Sirius, Betelgeuse and more.
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I'm always up bright and early, so if the weather holds (very likely) will definitely catch it.
--Cindy
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)
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*A bit more info about the meteor shower: Peak activity was this morning and tomorrow morning (Oct. 20 - 21). Best visibility is after midnight.
They're predicting an hourly rate of 14 to 31 meteors per hour.
Actually, the Orionid meteor shower runs from Oct. 2 - Nov. 7, but the *peak* is 20th and 21st.
Will try and catch it tomorrow morning; yesterday was...nevermind (today's not looking much brighter); just needed to catch up on some sleep this a.m.
--Cindy
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)
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