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Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th
PolygamousRanchKid writes with this quote:
"Sky watchers are in for their first treat of 2012, as the short but intense Quadrantid meteor shower will light up the northern sky in the early morning of Jan. 4. According to a NASA web page on the Quadrantids, there could be as many as 200 meteors per hour, though the average rate is about 60 to 100 per hour. ... The Quadrantids have not been studied as extensively as some of the better-known meteor showers like the Perseids and Geminids, possibly because it's best visible in far northern latitudes, where its appearance coincides with cold weather."
I for one support our new metoric overlords
... UTC, I have to assume.
... through all the Michigan snowfall and clouds, lying on my icy roof. It'll be great!
So, when is it gonna be most intense? At 3 AM my local time? It will rain for whole day (NASA says just a few hours), so everyone can get most of it at 3 AM? Or its 3 AM for some place in USA that seems to be obvious choice for everyone, but me...
The 4th is our 37th wedding anniversary and the sky is celebrating.
Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro
http://www.spacedex.com/quadrantids/
Go Quadrantids!
Max. will presumably occur during daylight hours in Europe, where I am.
bjd
That's what she said.
Rebooking my flight for the 5th.
Triffids beware. It is 2012 after all.
Cool, thanks a lot man!
That's a really good question, but considering that OP has been married 37 years that makes them at least 55 (assuming they were 18 when they married). So it's probably A or B. But then again I don't know OP so I have no idea :P
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75% moon will make it difficult to observe except for the brightest exemplars.
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Finally: according to that page the peak is on the morning of January 4th (7:30UTC)
Apparently the other articles think there's only 1 time zone in the world ("3am" is meaningless to me without specifying the time zone)
Supposing their kids (if any) were born -2 to +2 years of their marriage, I don't think option B would apply. 'Kids' that age should be able to handle that. But I don't know OP either, or his kids for that matter :)
;)
Saying that the sky is celebrating sounds kinda religious though
Have you stayed together this long because: A) You have a religious/social sense of obligation. B) You have kids, and separating would be too hard on them. C) You can't afford a divorce. D) You have an open relationship and regularly go on adventures without one another, but still like each other too. E) You actually still like each other, and would prefer to continue spending time together rather than every thing/one else you could be doing.
F) You've been together so long that you've developed an emotional (i.e. chemical) dependency, and being apart for too long results in unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.
It happens. I know it from first hand experience. I had a choice: Resent it, or make lemonade. So I gave 110% and my partner responded with 120% and the last 8 years have been mind blowing. A woman in her 50's can be an amazing thing, given some nurturing. A really good investment. I recommend putting in the effort - mostly, shutting up and really listening.
Cheers for that! I don't suppose you know why they list both the UK and Scotland in the times/locations list do you?
You'll need two more hours of nothing to make one hour of 200/hr into 60/hr. Do they mean 20 meteors in a 6-minute spike?
At least you aren't where I am: Canada - the second North America. Apparently I'm not even there as it is, since the Northwest Territories do not exist for them.
But I'm not planning on being outside in -30 Celsius with the 40km winds/60 km gusts we've had lately.
Saying that the sky is celebrating sounds kinda religious though ;)
In a vacuum, it might sound that way. But not when one understands that the original topic of discussion was a meteor shower.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I fully agree. It's a pity that the timezone is almost never mentioned in this kind of articles.
It's Nibiru! The giant pink bunny told me so.
Lock up your brussel sprouts, the world is about to end.
Yes, well, I did understand that, but my comment was about anthropomorphizing the skies. Or theomorphizing. Whatever.
that's no moon...
sag
Seriously???
You are up to date on the details that the moon orbits the Earth about once every month, while the Earth rotates once every day, right?
So given that and the statement "The waxing gibbous moon will set around 3 a.m. local time" can you work out what they mean by "local time".
The moon's daily trek across the sky is due to the rotation of the Earth, not the orbit of the moon. Hence the moon will set at 3am "local time" everywhere, excluding daylight saving time - but given it is the middle of winter and we are only talking about the northern parts of the northern hemisphere there won't be anyone on daylight saving time.
Radio detection and ranging, not *sound* detection and ranging.
Although in this case, it's more detection than ranging.
Actually, I thought it rather poetic (in the positive sense).
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Yes, yes, I don't disagree with that. But since GGGGGP's option A was to do with religion I thought I'd quip about that. Not a very good joke, I know... No harm intended anyway.