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Geminids 2009
Tman
post Dec 13 2009, 09:09 AM
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Tonight one of the best meteor shower of 2009 is coming (probably). http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/08dec_geminids.htm
There's an interesting fact about this shower. It has been intensifying in recent decades and the trend could continue because of Earth's and the stream orbit has come closer and closer together.

As I was awake this morning around 5 o'clock the sky was partly cloudly after rain yesterday and I saw my first Geminids in my life and still some of the much faster Leonids. Two of the Geminids have shown up as nice bolides and greenish.

Keep fingers crossed that the weather will be cooperative.


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- Tman   Geminids 2009   Dec 13 2009, 09:09 AM
- - Stu   Very frustrating here last night. Sky was clear wh...   Dec 13 2009, 09:29 AM
- - nprev   They're infrequent & slow, Stu. Hard to ca...   Dec 13 2009, 09:34 AM
- - Tman   Too bad about the weather here (and the very cold ...   Dec 13 2009, 09:55 AM
- - nprev   Indeed, slower is better! I love the Perseids,...   Dec 13 2009, 10:31 AM
- - Stu   Been watching the Geminids for 30 years or so now ...   Dec 13 2009, 10:40 AM
- - nprev   I would have been watching them longer then you, b...   Dec 13 2009, 10:53 AM
- - Stu   So.... quite a clear sky through the afternoon yes...   Dec 14 2009, 06:43 AM
- - Tesheiner   No chance here; it's snowing!   Dec 14 2009, 06:55 AM
- - djellison   It was so cloudy - I couldn't even see the clo...   Dec 14 2009, 07:44 AM
- - Tman   Wow Stu, I hadn't had your persistence. As us...   Dec 14 2009, 08:04 AM
- - brellis   It was great in Pasadena, CA. Between 12:12 and 1...   Dec 14 2009, 09:08 AM
- - brellis   I think I saw one coming almost straight down at m...   Dec 14 2009, 05:42 PM
|- - climber   QUOTE (brellis @ Dec 14 2009, 06:42 PM) I...   Dec 14 2009, 06:55 PM
- - PhilCo126   Excellent weather at the Belgian coastline with on...   Dec 15 2009, 04:39 PM
- - brellis   climber, I'm not sure it was an iridium flare....   Dec 15 2009, 06:04 PM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (brellis @ Dec 15 2009, 10:04 AM) c...   Dec 17 2009, 01:31 AM
- - nprev   Hey...point meteors gotta happen to somebody somew...   Dec 16 2009, 01:51 AM
- - bkellysky   Saw a few Saturday evening at our astronomy night ...   Dec 16 2009, 02:25 AM
- - brellis   thanks, mchan. It was almost dead straight overhe...   Dec 17 2009, 04:53 AM
- - mchan   There is the SeeSat email list. A lot of the stuf...   Dec 19 2009, 01:25 AM

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