[Chaos-l] Geminids

[Sorrell, Mickey Jo]

I am very happy to report that my 22 month-old grandson saw his first meteor this morning.
We were out just after 6 am, very bundled up and admiring Venus, when a long meteor streaked down the sky to the left (westward)  of that bright planet. His eyes got very wide as he continued to stare where the meteor had been. I said "meteor" and he repeated in a voice filled with awe "me-or."  Proud Grandma.

I was out about 5 am and saw half a dozen meteors in about 15 minutes. About the same at 6 am.

Mickey



Mickey Jo Sorrell
Morehead Planetarium & Science Center
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

919-962-3300
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From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] on behalf of Robert Nielsen [robertnielsen at nc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:51 AM
To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Subject: [Chaos-l] Geminids

Well, I was out for some portion of the time between 11:00 and 12:30 last night, and saw 22 meteors from my front yard ... so I think that means I was seeing close to 20/hour.   Most of them were just fast, quick burnouts.   But I saw 4 that were brighter and spanned a bit of the sky (about the distance between Betelgeuse and Rigel).   Considering how many trees I have in my yard, I bet you could have seen more than that in a clear field.

Robert

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