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Best Meteor Shower This Year

Posted by kdawson on from the must-use-Enlightenment-topic dept.

LittleRedStar writes "This Wednesday night and Thursday morning is the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. This is the typically the best meteor show of the year with up to 100 meteors per hour. This year the moon is a nuisance, but with the peak predicted for early Thursday morning it is worth getting out and watching. Since the Perseid meteor shower was washed out from the moon and the Leonids were a bust, this should be the best for 2006."

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  1. Re:To be honest... by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 3, Funny

    Golden showers don't cleanse.

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  2. yay! by oedneil · · Score: 4, Funny

    We can all sit on blankets with our girlfriends and hold hands while we watch this.. oh wait..

    1. Re:yay! by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

      replace girlfrieds with Wii; replace hands with WiiMote..

      there almost perfect...

  3. Re:Almost extinct comet? by Nuffsaid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they doing THAT? Are they CRAZY?!? Shifting Jupiter from its orbit? We are here busy worrying about asteroid impacts, and when you least expect it a gas giant hurls unstoppably toward our small planet, only because years before NASA was too cheap to buy enough fuel for its probes! They must be stopped NOW! To every celestial body its own momentum, I say.

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  4. Re:Almost extinct comet? by jrockway · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think the total velocity change from all our space probes was calculated to be about 1 foot per million years, or thereabouts.


    Unacceptable! Won't someone please think of our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children?
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  5. Another excellent prediction by jfengel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew that there was a meteor shower tonight as soon as I got up this morning, because it was cloudy and raining after several days of clear skies. Here in the DC area that's an infallible predictor of an astronomical event.