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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. Leonids may have been a bust by ballpoint · · Score: 2, Interesting

    in terms of intensity; I saw only 4 common very faint streaks in 20 minutes.

    However, I also was treated to a rare one that looked like a piece of shrapnel from fireworks coming down. That made it all worthwhile, certainly taking into account the unusually pleasant viewing conditions for a November night.

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  2. Re:To be honest... by fatphil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Urine is sterile though. Cut your hand on a rusty nail in a fence-post? You're better off washing the wound immediately with urine and then binding it than you are waiting 20 minutes before you get home and using some fancy schmancy medi-kit stuff.

    However, I suspect the usage previously is intended to make one feel 'dirty'.

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