[Chaos-l] Geminids

[Terry Crook]

That's it, start 'em young!

   MERRY CHRISTMAS   from
Terry Crook, The Crook in Real Estate, aka Taurus Terry
  one of Santa's helpers in December!


On 12/14/2010 10:36 PM, Sorrell, Mickey Jo wrote:
> 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.
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> I was out about 5 am and saw half a dozen meteors in about 15 minutes. About the same at 6 am.
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> Mickey
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> Mickey Jo Sorrell
> Morehead Planetarium&  Science Center
> University of North Carolina
> Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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> 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
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> Subject: [Chaos-l] Geminids
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> 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.
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> Robert
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