dirt_girl
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Saturday, 07/31 How lucky you are if you are camping out tonight. It's a full moon but not just any full moon... it's a "Blue Moon". If your'e home... use your imaginations. Next Blue Moon won't arrive until June 2007.
Just a heads up...The best meteor display of the summer comes during the second week of August, during the Perseid event. At its peak around the nights of Aug. 11 and 12, the shower can produce 50 to 100 fast, bright meteors per hour for any observer with a wide-open view of a dark sky.
Perseid meteors are bits of debris -- typically no larger than sand grains but sometimes up to marble size -- left behind during repeated passes of comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet crosses the inner solar system once every 128 years as part of its elongated orbit around the Sun.
Here's hoping :beer: you are under a wide open view of a dark sky !
dirt_girl
Just a heads up...The best meteor display of the summer comes during the second week of August, during the Perseid event. At its peak around the nights of Aug. 11 and 12, the shower can produce 50 to 100 fast, bright meteors per hour for any observer with a wide-open view of a dark sky.
Perseid meteors are bits of debris -- typically no larger than sand grains but sometimes up to marble size -- left behind during repeated passes of comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet crosses the inner solar system once every 128 years as part of its elongated orbit around the Sun.
Here's hoping :beer: you are under a wide open view of a dark sky !
dirt_girl
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