[meteorite-list] Perseids

From: MuseumStore/NatureSource <musnat_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:13 2004
Message-ID: <007e01c242ed$073cc260$c28d70d1_at_JCD>

>Sam was demanding to see one, having waited outside for what must have been
>a very long 10 minutes to him, when, right on cue, as soon as Sam had
>extorted "Well, C'mon, let's see one!", a huge arc of yellow light cut the
>heavens in half - he was most impressed with his apparent ability to summon
>them up!!

OK, next time tell him to try, "C'mon Dad, let's see a nice oriented 5 kilo
Lunar land on the lawn!" :-)

Saw lots of things falling from the sky up here in Alaska last
night...unfortunately they were all raindrops! It never fails!

Jeannie






>Well, I have been waiting a long time to be able to sit outside with my
>oldest boy at 11 o clock at night and watch a meteor storm! Made me feel
>like a real parent! And Sam (who is 10) got a real buzz being able to stay
>up late!
>What a gas!!! not a great number of them, but those that we saw veritably
>cut the sky in half and left a trail for a second or two. Like breathtaking
>rockets, they were!
>Sam was demanding to see one, having waited outside for what must have been
>a very long 10 minutes to him, when, right on cue, as soon as Sam had
>extorted "Well, C'mon, let's see one!", a huge arc of yellow light cut the
>heavens in half - he was most impressed with his apparent ability to summon
>them up!!
>After an hour or so I thought it was about time the young chap want to
bed -
>he agreed to go after seeing one last one. No sooner had I agreed this
with
>him when another lit up the sky...."night, Sam, off to bed!" - he couldn;t
>argue!
>
>What really surprised me was the very large number of satellites we both
saw
>going across the sky - maybe 6 or so? They were not planes (previous
>experience has helped me to tell the difference between planes and a
>satellite overpass)
>
>What wondrous heavens!!
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>In gentle decay,
>d.
>"I have a proof that x^n+y^n=z^n never has integer solutions for n>2.
>however, it won't fit into my signature file...."
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Received on Tue 13 Aug 2002 01:15:30 PM PDT