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Geminid Meteor Shower
Inferno Intelligence writes: "spaceweather.com is reporting that there will be another meteor shower real soon. They are reporting that '[t]he shower [will] peak on Dec. 13th and 14th!' 'What are the Geminid meteors? Scientists aren't sure. Perhaps chips off an exotic asteroid or dust from an extinct comet.' After last months Leonid Shower, I won't miss this one!" Since I slept through the Leonids, I hope I don't miss this one, too.
Well, what more is there to say?
Everytime there is a meteor shower it is overcast. I never get to see it.
..some of you Linux geeks really need one. Don't you realise how much you all stink?
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepeneur'." -George W. Bush
i slept through the last leonids to, at about 1am i fell asleep thinking foolishly i would lay down for a few minutes after staying up programming the night b4..lol
-- Note to self - 'Don't push that button'.
A friend of mine got some VERY nice pictures of the leonids. I'll see if I can get them posted on a webserver some place. I love meteor showers, and in the winter the air is so still it's easy to see.
I'm originally from a fairly small city. Now I'm living in downtown Toronto. Meteor showers aren't what they used to be.
Why can't this one be a week later? I'll be home for xmas then!
Booo-urns!
Wes - Crazy like a fox.
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"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepeneur'." -George W. Bush
Too bad I have term exams....
I missed the leonids coz it was damn hazy, foggy in waterloo, ON
on the other hand..what time is it supposed to happen?
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Hopefully, Inferno Intelligence will learn how to drive, so we don't get lost like we did when we went to the last meteor shower.
... as this year is not expected to be any more spectacular for the Geminids than any other year, and compared to last month this will be positively underwhelming.
Seems to me that the only real draw is that we just had a very exciting shower so everyone is more aware of the meteor phenom. But as SpaceWeather points out, the expected maximum is only going to be around "100 or more" per hour.
In short, don't get your knickers in a knot. But if the Leonids woke you up to meteor showers, this will be a good intro to what you'll see in a typical shower.
--Brandon / Split Infinity Music
NASA has a great article about Geminid meteors. The number of meteors has increased greatly since first they first appeared in the mid-1800's. NASA also provides a video taken from a man in CA, December 13, 1998.
http://tomgould.com/
will i be able to watch on the web or will outside be the best place to see them?
Wow, triple H is a dude with big breasts. I know a ton of girls who would kill to have a chest that large.
I SWEAR.....if this time is foggy again, Someone is in big SH**** .. ill go complain to someone ... who? i dont know...
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I took my daughter to see the loenids and she was really impressed. It seems to me that the Geminids will not be as spectacular so I may skip it. I was really happy that it got her thinking (she's 6, in 1st grade) about earth moving thru space and got her more interested in the planets and meteors. We live relatively close to NYC and we went to the Natural History Museum a few months ago. They have a piece of a meteor on display, which I loved, but she was unimpressed. I think we'll go again and see if her reaction is different this time.
the leonoid shower would have been nice to see but in metro detroit it was overcast, not to mention we have a tone of light polution.
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This is why I love slashdot. You wild and krazy guys allways post news that I want to know. Seriously.
Personally, I am a gemini-taurus cusp who plays UT
The Ursids are next.
They max out on December 22-23.
Is there something particularly interesting about something that happens pretty much every year? Why didn't Slashdot report them last year? And why only these last two?
Here's the schedule, by the way.
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If the last meteor shower was that visible, mind you, I saw only 1 meteor every 5 minutes, will this single meteor be just as bright? Being in NY and all, we have too much light, but in secluded areas, there is SOME visibility. Like in a baseball field when the lights are dead.
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We had a great view of the leonids here inIthaca (and people made fun of me for going to school in the middle of nowhere... HA!.. ok, maybe not)
But, where are the summer meteor showers? The last one had me standing out in the middle of a field at 5am, something I was uncomfortable enough doing because I was waiting for some cow to mug me (city mentality, I know), but it was also freezing. Now in December? I'll probably cease to exist if I'm out that late in the December in Ithaca. I better not tell my roommates or they'll drag me out again.
Anyone noticed if there are any summer showers?
Gee /. posters, pay attention, it's "Leonid", not "Geminid" ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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If your average idiot american (both joe-six-pack and Congress/presidents) have their way, it'll only be a few more years before watching meteor showers from the ground is the only form of "exploration" they are budgeted for.
After the recent Leonid meteor showers my interest in astronomy became rekindled and I took the old telescope out of the closet and started pointing it at various things in the sky. Then, I wanted to take some pictures of what I saw so I took apart by webcam and attached it to the telescope in place of the eyepiece. Voila! It worked and I got some great pictures of the moon and some rather blurry shots of Jupiter and a few of it's moons.
Recently I've seen a few pages like this one. That describe how to take pictures of meteor showers with a 35mm camera (by exposing the film for extended periods of time). Is there any way to extend the exposure time like this with a digital camera? Any objects that are dimmer than a planet or a moon don't seem to show up.
I'd really like to set something up to get some shots of the Geminids by aiming the scope at a piece of sky and waiting for one to pass in front of it (or set it up to take repeated timed exposures). Is any of this possible with a Creative Video Blaster Webcam? Or should I fall back to the 35mm camera?
Why do people link to home pages? Or news pages that change? It is silly and leads to broken links in just a couple of weeks. You need to link to actual articles. Point to archives. At least those pages stand less of chance of getting broken once the home page changes. Link to static pages, not dynamic ones. Got it?
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The annual Persied shower is one of the best showers of the year and the best summer shower. The peak is around Aug 12-13 with upwards to 80 or so meteors visible per hour from a dark sky site.
A good source of info for coming astronomical events is Sky and Telescope magazine. You can find online info from S&T here.
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"freeze if you stand out that long"
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With the exception of today, we've been having a VERY mild winter here... I've worn a T-shirt and a fleece jacket almost all semester, never need to upgrade to sweatshirts.
I remember my freshman year, the trombone section of the marching band was bone-caroling in shorts and T-shirts. This was during study week. And yes, it was here in Ithaca.
I missed the Leonids due to sleep dep. Slept right through my alarm.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
goatse.cx is now putting web bugs on their page, so
don't visit it!
Point your antenna towards the meteors and make some meteor scatter contacts. :)
I'm not joking - it's a common propagation mode for hardcore VHFers. I don't know if it was successful, but a bunch of hams were hoping to use the Leonids to break the terrestrial distance record on 10 GHz.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred in September, followed by a deadly and bloody WAR against the Islamic faith (against the holiest of Muslim clerics and scholars, the beloved Taliban leaders of the Afghanistan people) and now we're struggling to bring order to Afghanistan with the establishment of an interim government, and you people have the gall to be discussing a meteor shower???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about meteor showers, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me!
...make sure you get out of the city to view the show. Meteor showers et al look MUCH better outside of the glare of the city lights. And, bring binoculars with you. You wont regret it!
I remember seeing some really neat meteor showers as a kid--and the further out of town you can get, the better. It's worth the car ride at 2 in the morning.
.. people are excited to watch a bunch of rocks on fire millions of miles away? stare at the sun! its better! NOTE: any harm caused by this post is hopefully not the fault of the author..
"Everything we say and do is right." -a mooninite
I hope the weather is better for this shower. It was totally overcast where I live when the Leonids came around. And I even got up at 5am. What an unholy hour.
I know... it's been an awesome winter, but there were a few cold days and that night it still was in the low 40s, which is still cold when you're standing still.
seems like the college geeks are studying their asses off..
Come on! When it's cold outside the sky is clearer. Besides, the cow only wanted your wallet.
Those were the Leonid Meteors... THese are the Geminid!, thus a perfectly valid article.
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...staying up late, only to have it cloud up half an hour before the event, I won't bother staying up for any more meteor showers. If I just happen to get lucky, roll over in bed and see the proper time on the clock; then so be it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
At least this one, while not as intense as the Leonids, will also be during the new moon. It may be less dense, but unless it's cloudy (very likely here in the Great Pacific NorthWet), maybe I'll be able to catch a few of them.
I don't like seeing all these "What's the point? It won't be as exciting as the Leonid" posts.
I went out for the Leonids last month and didn't quite see the cosmic fireworks that I'd prepared to expect, but it was still something that I'm entirely pleased I did.
I live in downtown Minneapolis, so stargazing is not a common pasttime in these parts. But I went out and sat down on my porch in my bathrobe and boxers at two-thirty in the morning, and just looked up for a half hour or so. I was lucky enough to not be blocked by clouds and I could situate myself so that no street-lights would kill my night vision.
It was magnificent. I saw five falling stars that night. It reminded me of standing in the middle of a field when I was younger in the northern Wisconsin woods-- at a certain point you stop thinking about the science of astronomy or really anything else, and you're just amazed at the vast dark-blue sky.
Is there much of anything out there that can give you that feeling, even now, when you're all grown up? I wish there was more.
If reading a post about a shower once a month on Slashdot will help me know when I can go sit on my porch again and get that feeling, I'm willing to put up with the repetition.
I notice alot of "it will be underwhelming" ect, blah blah, not as good as last months...blah blah. Well damn I'm glad for you, I'm freakin' happy you saw the one last month. Guess what? I was in peak zone, and it was bloody well overcast, which means...I saw squat.
To think on it, last time I actually did see a metor shower would have been somewhere around 1991-92. That's counting the fact it wasn't overcast...raining, or had some other weather system passing over where I live.
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Andy!
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I missed them too...due to partner sleep deprivation...she pulled the covers up, I fell asleep
I know I'm going to go out and try to see this one
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(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)gnore?
Are any of these meteor showers visible from approx 32 degrees south? (Not only are most times in one of the many US standards, but there's little or no mention of what people in The Rest of the World can see...
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According to geosynchronous orbit atmosphere tracking satellite explorer (goatse) at
www.goatse.cx, there WILL be quite a clear view of the moon during this meteor shower.
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That quotation by Inferno Intelligence is completely incorrect. Infact, I typed out a whole 400 word explanation but when I clicked on Submit it said I'd already commented within 2 minutes (and I had.. on a different thread) and when I hit Back, it deleted everything I had typed.
Go to the site and recheck your quote. Why decapitalize the T? No reason at all. And why change "The shower peaks on" to "[t]he shower [will] peak on". No bloody reason at all, that's what.
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Yeah...I missed the Leonid shower as well, so I just have to see this one. heh...day befor finals start. I'll be up all night anyway, so I'll kick myself if I miss it. Then again, the weather has started to get wintery and such...
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The Leonids were fantastic up here. A couple hundred people from Queen's came out (most of us high as a kite ;D) and sat along the lake. It was a amazingly clear night.
True, it _was_ Kingston weather in late November, but hell, other than a few extremities going numb, it was all good.
Geminids and then Ursids, eh? Wish I could remember my constellations so I knew where to look.
I'm actually quite glad that /. is posting meteor showers. I generally keep track of the larger ones (Perseids, Leonids) but it is nice to be notified of some of the smaller ones. And a new moon to boot! I think I'll do for this shower what I planned to do for the Leonids which is go camping somewhere. I ended up in a small town in PA for the Leonids with some friends but it was still a great show.
For those of you who had an uninteresting experience with the Leonids due to weather, location, etc., I recommend going somewhere else besides the city. Make it someplace fun and interesting. Rent a cabin, whatever. At least then if the weather isn't the greatest, you may still have a good time.
I personally woudl like to see all the meteor events posted on /..
:::Horrendous Experiences Make Amusing Anecdotes:::
The 3 main meteorite showers I observe are the Leonids, Geminids, and the Percids. So, yeah it's best for it to be really cold and clear. Just make sure you bring enough blankets and some hot beverages.