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Perseid Meteor Shower To Peak This Weekend

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-out-and-watch-the-sights dept.

Krishna Dagli writes "This weekend provides one of the year's best opportunities to see some "shooting stars". The annual Perseid meteor display is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday night. Meteors are bits of dust or rock that plunge into the Earth's atmosphere and burn up, making bright streaks in the sky. It does not take a large object to produce a visible meteor — most are the size of a grain of sand or a small pebble."

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  1. They're not really meteors by WilliamSChips · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're the aliens, trying to establish contact but getting attacked by the USAF.

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  2. Late Late Late by iced_773 · · Score: 5, Funny
    is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday night.

    Shoot, I missed most of it.
    1. Re:Late Late Late by plasmacutter · · Score: 2, Funny

      dont worry.. it'll be back in 133 years, which means the next time you'll be able to see it with your bionic eyes! @.@

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    2. Re:Late Late Late by plasmacutter · · Score: 2, Funny

      then why does TFA say the perseids come from the debris of a comet on a 133 year orbit? O.o

      so now it's not only late, but wrong too?

      ye gods!

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    3. Re:Late Late Late by snafu109 · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, Halley's Comet is expected to pass by Earth sometime in 1986. It should be quite a sight!

    4. Re:Late Late Late by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      DUPE! This was posted on slashdot in 1997 and again in 2003.

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  3. Re:Erm.. by gadzook33 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.

    but a spelling one would be nice.

  4. Re:Erm.. by TrippTDF · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hello this is Slashdot. I don't think we really needed the 3rd grade scienst lesson.

    Spelling, on the other hand...

  5. I sense... by wwiiol_toofless · · Score: 4, Funny

    A great disturbance in the Force. It was like a million voices crying out in unison, then suddenly silenced as millions of Dads finally attempted to use their $600 Costco telescopes, only to realize they had thrown out their manuals with the box...

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  6. Story formatting by mnemonic_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like the formatting of this story, especially the use of the anchor tag. Very refreshing.

  7. Too late by FlyByPC · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...looks like the posting's HTML got holed by one of the Perseids -- one of the tags got taken clean out!

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  8. A new low in editing by Phat_Tony · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've got plenty of "<'s" if the editors need some. I'll sell 'em for cheap.

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    1. Re:A new low in editing by netkid91 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm selling 's to compliment them!!!

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  9. As slashdot says... by MattS423 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Well, you should have used the preview button!"

  10. Re:closing anchor tags by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd mod you up but it's such a rigmarole to go through..

  11. Re:We dont like the Moon! by nrlightfoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't like the moon much either. I wish NASA would paint it black.

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  12. Re:Meteorite Hit Three Blocks From Me Once by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was only known car to be hit.

    Well, Peekskill has a tradition of smashing up cars with rocks, don't it? :)

    If I had a meteor
    I'd hammer in the mornin'
    I'd hammer in the evenin'
    All over this car. . .

    Everybody!

    KFG

  13. Re:Not merely 3rd grade science... by langelgjm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll let somebody else point out that the orbit is 133 years, not 150.

    The orbit is 133 years, not 150.

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  14. Re:America's Got Talent by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    When is Leonid peaking?

    '72, but fizzled out all together ten years later.

    KFG

  15. Sorry... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't like the moon much either. I wish NASA would paint it black.
    ....they have to go there first!

  16. I use them as a weather indicator by zenst · · Score: 2, Funny

    SImple - If I read anything about a meteor shower that is has the slightest chance of being visable to the naked eye. Then I know for a fact it will be one of the most misrable clodiest days for ages, even after few good solid weeks without a cloud in the sky.

    We had meteor forcast, its cloudy that even the clouds are obscured by clouds.

    I there conclude that all these reports of meteor showrs are causing global warming - FIN :).

  17. Stuff that matters! by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

    On Slashdot, you're reminded of stuff that matters a full year in advance!

    Thanks!

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  18. Dupe! by Koohoolinn · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a dupe because we've had reports about this on 2004/08/10, 2003/08/13, 2002/08/08, ...

    I can almost see a pattern emerging... D'oh!

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