“like a car driving through falling snow..”
If you are fortunate enough to get clear skies over the next few nights don’t forget that it’s time for the Perseids meteor shower – it’s a regular event. Best viewing will be early on Tuesday morning but there should be plenty of meteors visible either side of that time. Astronomy.ie are running a Perseid Watch 2008 and the Royal Observatory is predicting a larger number of meteors than usual as the Earth ploughs through the dusty debris left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet last dropped by our neighbourhood in 1992, it’ll drop by again in 2126 – passing within 15 million miles of Earth – there’s an [java req] orbital diagram here. Fortunately we probably won’t be around in 3044 when it’s been estimated that it’ll pass within 1 million miles of Earth. That’s roughly just 4 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon..
(If you are fortunate enough to get clear skies over the next few nights!!!). Spectacular as the undoubtedly are, fortune will not favor budding astrophysicists from this local, http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1342. Still there’s always 3044.!! Wat Wat Wat.
PB,
‘Fortunately we probably won’t be around in 3044′
We ? Are we talking the slugger blogosphere, the entire species , or are you using the royal plural as an ersatz for your good self ?
I’ve never known you to be such a pessimist
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Greenflag
That would be ‘me and everyone else reading this’, today, probably..