Watch the skies for them Shooting Stars

[Mike Teacher]

It's that time of year, if yer outside, real good chance of seeing a shooting star meteor type thingy. After midnight is best, and the nights of aug. 11th and 12th might get real interesting, the Perseids peak then, and this is a good year in terms of the moon, which won't be out to ruin the dark skies, even though city lights do that pretty well too.

No telescope, no binocs, just find a place with no lights and dark skies and sit back and who knows? One summer they were going about two a minute, and thats with NJ light pollution.

Summer Meteor Showers (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/26/shower.meteor/index.html)

The 2004 Perseid Meteor Shower (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/25jun_perseids2004.htm)



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[reeshy]

A great place to see shooting stars is Jones beach..no lights and quiet!!!

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[Tall_James]

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[JPMNICK]

mizzle -

is it possible that I have seen satellites at night. One night camping in PA, I could have sworn it was a satellite. It was to slow to be a shooting star, and def. not a plane. That was my only logical explanation. I was thining that they have solor panels to power them, so maybe with the right reflection it could have been.

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[Mike Teacher]

JPMNick,

definately; the space shuttle when it flies, the ISS Space Station and a whole bunch of satellites are visible by eye; it's all about when and where and clear skies; a goggle search has sites that show when to see things like the ISS.

Moving slow + not blinking like a star + no blinking red/green lights [aircraft] = it's probably a satellite.

or: A Close Encouter of the First Kind :eg:

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[reeshy]

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When I was a kid,,we could always see Telstar when we lived upstate!!!!

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[East Side Dave]

I saw Death Star once...joyriding in the Fulcon...

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[JPMNICK]

Mizzle, you never posted the dates you were going to be outside on the baord walk with your telescope. you had mentioned a while ago that you do that during the summer months. I was going to take a trip to south jersey and meet you!

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[reeshy]

I was going to take a trip to south jersey and meet you!


Gee...I'd like to do that to...I love telescopes!!!!

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[Legolas]

Everyone knows there's no such thing as shooting stars. How can they shoot? THey are stars not people!!!

Who's ever heard of such a thing?????



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[Furtherman]

Now I know we've had some close calls - but never THIS close!!

According to The History Channel: (http://www.historychannel.com/)

This Day in History:
1972: A meteor blazes northward across North America, barely missing the Earth. At its lowest point, above Montana, the meteor reached an altitude of less than 60 km, low enough to trigger a sonic boom. It steadily gained altitude as it passed over Manitoba and disappeared into space. If it had collided with the Earth, astronomers believe the blast would have equaled the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.




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[Mike Teacher]

This Day in History:
1972: A meteor blazes northward across North America, barely missing the Earth. At its lowest point, above Montana, the meteor reached an altitude of less than 60 km, low enough to trigger a sonic boom. It steadily gained altitude as it passed over Manitoba and disappeared into space. If it had collided with the Earth, astronomers believe the blast would have equaled the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


I'm not sure if it's of this exact event, but I'm pretty sure, because there's video. Well, 8mm cam footage which is un-fucking-real. It's in all the UFO Nimoy type TV shows: you see mountains and woods, and this flaming thing just cruising like an airplane, but no way it an airplane, its a fireball, and the guy films as the thing just keeps going and going.

::off to find a link, it's gotta be on the web::

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[JPMNICK]

Mizzle -

Is that the one that landed in Siberia?

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[reeshy]

I just shit my pants...oh, well, back to dispensing my beloved methadone!!!

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[Mike Teacher]

Well, I found on Google that the guy who shot the Montana Fireball video wont let ANYone on the web use the footage. All I could find was this still from the film:

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The Tunguska one was at the beginning of the century, so no photos of the event, but there a zillion photos of forests just blown Flat from that one; I think the current theory is that Tunguska was a comet or meteor that exploded before it hit; the Montana fireball, if you could see the footage of the above, just keeps going and going, the guy shot it for over a minute, till it was out of range I guess.

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[reeshy]

Looks kind of phony...what website was that from?

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[JPMNICK]

The blast area from Tunguska was incredible. I watched a special on the history chanel about that. They recreated the blast.

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[saveopieanthony.net]

Tunguska is an important episode in the Xfiles as well. Mulder and Scully are following a dipolmatic pouch that has a rock from Mars in it and it leads them to Tunguka Russia where Mulder is taken prisoner. He mentions that history that in 1908 (or about) the largest piece from outer space hit earth, causing a 2,000 km zone and caused a release more than an A or Hydrogen Bomb. Mulder says "some people think it was a piece of a comet or a meteor, but I think what actually happened is more terrifiying than we can imagine" (implies that there is a alien "oil" which was in the 1998 movie contains alien DNA and controls humans.)


(I know i'm a geek..i'd thought I'd contribute)

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[NewYorkDragons80]

A great place to see shooting stars is Jones beach..no lights and quiet!!!
Well at least the light part is true.

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[reeshy]

I did several google searches...can't find any websites that collerate to this...please help..I am really into this stuff and need some info!!!!

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[sr71blackbird]

Its true reeshy. I heard that it was actually the fragment of a comet that caused the Tunguska blast. I was always an astronomy buff and even took it in school, and keep expecting that someday the Earth will get slammed somewhere (hopefully no one gets hurt). The meteor shower Mike is talking about is also caused by the particles that were embedded in a comet that has since burned up, and as we orbit the sun, we pass through the trail of those particles and they burn up as the atmosphere crashes into them. Kinda cool.

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[Furtherman]

The earth will actually be passing through the debris trail left by the comet Swift-Tuttle. This year could be a particularly good show because we'll be very close to the comet's orbit. This time we'll be passing through a trail of debris left by Swift-Tuttle in 1862.

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[Furtherman]

The blast area from Tunguska was incredible. I watched a special on the history chanel about that. They recreated the blast.


I had read only a couple of weeks ago that an expedition was headed to Tuguska to search the area for signs of what happened.

I read an article yesterday that they found something, but it seemed suspect. Today I found a 2nd source. I'm curious to see how this will turn out.

Russian Researchers Say Debris of Alien Spaceship found in Siberia (http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/08/10/tunguska.shtml)

Perhaps a chunk of an iron metorite?

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[reeshy]

Can one of you guys give me some websites that I can go to to see this...Please ...no negative PM's like I have gotten for this same question!!

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[Furtherman]

Just type Tunguska into Google search and you'll come up with tons of websites, like this one:

1908 Siberia Explosion (http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html)

and this one...

Tunguska (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/380060.stm)

Edit: And to hell with those sending you negative PMs!

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This message was edited by Furtherman on 8-11-04 @ 2:22 PM

[Mike Teacher]

Tonights forecast: Thunderstorms.

Ack.

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[reeshy]

I was just thinking about a lightning strike that I had witnessed about 10 years ago...I was on a backpacking trip with my son and his best friend..we were in the southern part of the Adirondacks on top of a mountain....It got dark really fast,,it was hot and humid and you could feel the electicity in the air,,,I told the boys we would have to seek shelter soon and started to get off the high ground...all of a sudden there was a thunderclclap and a lightning bolt hit a tree about 100 meters from us....the hair on my head was standing up straight and we weren't ...we hit the deck and then the rain hit...talk about scared shitless!!

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[Legolas]

You talkin to me ADF?

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[Tall_James]

New Tunguska news courtesy of those wacky Chinese (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-08/12/content_1766126.htm)


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[SatCam]

This is really really interesting.

Hopefully the sky will clear up a bit up here and I can get a good view of sky tonight. I'll keep my eyes open!

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[ADF]

You talkin to me ADF?


No, that's Robert Blake, the star of "Beretta," who was implicated in the shooting of his wife.

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[fiestygal]

i looooooooooooove the stars- especially this time of year



i really wish i could have seen the meteor shower :(

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[Furtherman]

Russians add new twist to old UFO myth (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5686713/)

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040812/040812_tunguska1_hmed_1p.h2.jpg



Almost a century after the 1908 Tunguska explosion, flattened trees still cover the Siberian landscape.


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[Furtherman]

Woman hanging out washing 'hit by meteorite' (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/12620274?source=Evening%20Standard)

Yikes!

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[Furtherman]

Another near miss!

The closest observed asteroid yet to skim past the Earth without hitting the atmosphere, was reported by astronomers on Sunday. (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996307)

OK, there was no real danger and it would have burned up. As I look out my window though, I wonder if I'll ever see that Chrysler Building get its top shaved off by one of these.

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[reeshy]

I wonder if I'll ever see that Chrysler Building get its top shaved off by one of these.


I pray to Baby Jesus that you never see that!!!!...Amen!!!!!

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[Fez4PrezN2008]

Perseid Meteors coming again tonight. Anyone watching?

[TooLowBrow]

Perseid Meteors coming again tonight. Anyone watching?

im looking


but its so dark out

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[Drunky McBetidont]

kind of overcast skies here. what direction should i be looking in (besides up) n,s,e,w ?

[Fez4PrezN2008]

kind of overcast skies here. what direction should i be looking in (besides up) n,s,e,w ?
Northeast, I read on an article...