Sunday, August 10, 2008
“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..
Pete Baker @ 09:07 PM
(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.
Posted by on Aug 11, 2008 @ 10:15 AMPB,
‘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 :)?
Posted by on Aug 11, 2008 @ 07:10 PMGreenflag
That would be ‘me and everyone else reading this’, today, probably..
Posted by on Aug 11, 2008 @ 08:01 PM
