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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. How long before the big one? by Annoymous+Cowherd · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did you know that NASA, in collusion with certain three-letter-acronym government organizations, has already developed a meteor shield?

    Studies have proved that the shield is 98% effective (from outside the stratosphere) in deflecting stray bits of interstellar junk...it's a little-known offshoot of the old SDI initiative which most people thought went defunct long ago.

    They just don't want to deploy it yet because they don't want canadians and spics getting free shielding at the expense of the US taxpayers.

    Now I'm all for letting those idiots south of the border get what's coming to them, but the fact remains that we might not be able to develop a US-only shield fast enough to protect us from the next big strike. Besides, if we really wanted to protect *all* our american people, we'd also have to (shudder) shield iraq...and that's just not done.