On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:53:32 +0200, martin wrote:

~On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:
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~On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 08:49:10 +0200, martin wrote:
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~~On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:03:51 +0100, "David Hill"
wrote:
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~~".... Pleiades meteorites - tonight is the night. ........"
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~~What time?
~~
~~for three solid days and nights starting yesterday.
~~BTW it's not Pleiades. I got the name wrong.
~~--
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~yep It's the Perseids. Well-known for fireballs as well as bright
~meteors. Trouble is the moon - it will drown out most of them this
~year.
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~People living in places not illuminated by street lights saw
~meteorites last night.

They'd have been very lucky to see a meteorite!!! (But I know what you
mean

A meteoroid is a piece of rock (any size) floating about in orbit.
A meteor is the shooting star as a meteoroid enters the atmosphere.
A meteorite is what's left when some of the meteor survives to ground
and hits it. Usually seen in museums.

~
~www.heavens-above.com will tell you when the moon rises and much more.
It's a very useful site. So's Astronomy Now (and Spaceflight Now)
which detail all sorts of space info, both natural and human-related.

~The International Space Station is visible at the moment.
And yes it is the really fast moving bright thing! Doesn't take long
to cross the sky.

~--
~Martin

jane (Amateur astronomer for longer than she's been a gardener)

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jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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