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11-08-2017, 06:57 PM
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Meteor Shower this weekend

For anyone interested, don't forget tonight, tomorrow and Sunday nights we should be able to watch the Perseid meteor shower.
The peak should be Saturday night with 60 - 100 meteors per hour visible - weather permitting.

I shall be watching, hope I see lots.

Here's a bit more info I saw:

What are the Perseid meteors?
The Perseids are a collection of space dust and debris left in the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle.

Every year the Earth passes through this path, the debris slams into the upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 130,000 miles an hour (210,000 km)

Swift-Tuttle is a periodic comet that orbits the planet roughly every 133 years. The next time it crosses paths with Earth is estimated on August 5, 2126.

The comet boasts a gigantic 16 mile (26 km) wide nucleus and is the largest object in the solar system to repeatedly pass close to Earth.
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11-08-2017, 06:58 PM
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I hope none of them drop on our chip shop
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11-08-2017, 07:06 PM
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Re: Meteor Shower this weekend

Originally Posted by Mups ->
For anyone interested, don't forget tonight, tomorrow and Sunday nights we should be able to watch the Perseid meteor shower.
The peak should be Saturday night with 60 - 100 meteors per hour visible - weather permitting.

I shall be watching, hope I see lots.

Here's a bit more info I saw:

What are the Perseid meteors?
The Perseids are a collection of space dust and debris left in the path of Comet Swift-Tuttle.

Every year the Earth passes through this path, the debris slams into the upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 130,000 miles an hour (210,000 km)

Swift-Tuttle is a periodic comet that orbits the planet roughly every 133 years. The next time it crosses paths with Earth is estimated on August 5, 2126.

The comet boasts a gigantic 16 mile (26 km) wide nucleus and is the largest object in the solar system to repeatedly pass close to Earth.
Well I for one won't be watching them.
Just look at the last time this came about.



My tip is keep yer curtains closed and if you have any house plants get rid of them.
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11-08-2017, 07:12 PM
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Longfella and Rehab, yer mad . . the pair of yer!
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11-08-2017, 07:21 PM
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Longfella and Rehab, yer mad . . the pair of yer!
Yes Mups and that is because we wuz around when the first meteor shower came down.
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11-08-2017, 07:33 PM
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Think it's going to be too cloudy to see anything but cloud sadly
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11-08-2017, 07:41 PM
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Yes Mups and that is because we wuz around when the first meteor shower came down.
Ah yes I remember it well, it caused bloody havoc amongst the dinosaurs.
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11-08-2017, 07:51 PM
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Think it's going to be too cloudy to see anything but cloud sadly
Never mind, we can watch it next time round in 2126
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11-08-2017, 07:52 PM
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Ah yes I remember it well, it caused bloody havoc amongst the dinosaurs.

What are you two on tonight?
There's me, trying to put on an educated post for a change, and a fat lot of help you are!


Take that.
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Never mind, we can watch it next time round in 2126

They'll have to dig me up first Leia.
 
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