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POPS2009 Leonid Meteor Shower More from the article below: ""We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Our forecast is in good accord with independent theoretical work by other astronomers." "A remarkable feature of this year's shower is that Leonids will appear to be shooting almost directly out of the planet Mars," notes Cooke. It's just a coincidence. This year, Mars happens to be passing by the Leonid radiant at the time of the shower. The Red Planet is almost twice as bright as a first magnitude star, so it makes an eye-catching companion for the Leonids"
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POPSC/2007 N3 鹿林慧星 (Lulin) Relative to other Oort cloud comets, it is considered very close to the perigee of the Earth, only about 0.41 astronomical units (equivalent to 610,000 kilometers), making the astronomical experts, a lot of day and night guarding it, and also captured a rare tail comet breakthrough long tail and so the reverse scenario.
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POPSFix Ford Mustang Cowl leaks or prevent them Back in 1986 when I discovered my 66 Mustang had a cowl leak , I tried all the usual ways to slow or stop the ever present threat of water damage to the cowl area , This one actually worked well enough for me and have used one of these great covers for over 10 years, they work very well , i just attach it to the car by lining up the front edge and I'm done . The strong Magnetic action of the Vinyl coated rubber does the rest , Even when I ran my car at the strip it did not come off , staying tight to a timed 98 MPH quarter. If I had my choice i would have used one of these covers from day one of getting my Mustang and saved a lot of time and work , I now see they are available for Cougars as well as Ford maverick 60 thru 65 Ford Falcon as well as the same year Mercury Comets. Check it out at Classiccowlcovers.info and enjoy your car more.
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POPSTHE END OF TIME WINDOW - MAYAN PROPHECY TECHNOLOGY IS NOT THE SIGN OF AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION...ITS THE SIGN OF A CIVILIZATION ABOUT TO ADVANCE. MAYA HAVE BEEN THROUGH MANY POLE SHIFTS AND ARE PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ONE WHICH THEY SAY (AND CERTAIN SCIENTISTS AGREE) COULD HAPPEN ANY MINUTE...LOOK FOR THE MISSING OF OUR MAGNETOSPHERE. (WATCH PBS NOVA 2003 "MAGNETIC STORM" ON GOOGLE VIDEO FOR *SCIENTIFIC* CONFIRMATION) PLEASE LISTEN TO THE LINK. IT WILL EXPLAIN THE DISCREPENCIES BETWEEN 2012 RUMOUR AND 2012 MAYA TRUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 500 YEARS THAT THE MAYAN COUNCIL HAS SPOKE ON THE "END OF TIME" (BEGINNING OF A NEW CIVILIZATION)
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POPSSet Your Alarm For The Orionids!
"Last but not least, the display will be framed by some of the prettiest stars and planets in the night sky. In addition to Orionids, you'll see brilliant Venus, red Mars, the dog star Sirius, and bright winter constellations such as Orion, Gemini and Taurus. Even if the shower is a dud, the rest of the sky is dynamite." "According to Japanese meteor scientists Mikiya Sato and Jun-ichi Watanabe, 2006 marked Earth's first encounter with some very old debris. "We have found that the was caused by dust trails ejected from 1P/Halley in 1266 BC, 1198 BC, and 911 BC," they wrote in the August 2007 edition of Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. In their paper "Origin of the 2006 Orionid Outburst," Sato and Watanabe used a computer to model the structure and evolution of Halley's many debris streams stretching back in time as far as 3400 years. The debris that hit Earth in 2006 was among the oldest they studied and was rich in large fireball-producin
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POPSNew Clovis-Age Comet Impact Theory "Highest concentrations of extraterrestrial impact materials occur in the Great Lakes area and spread out from there," Kennett said. "It would have had major effects on humans. Immediate effects would have been in the North and East, producing shockwaves, heat, flooding, wildfires, and a reduction and fragmentation of the human population."
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POPSJupiter turned Comet into "Moon" for 12 years Between 2068 and 2986, comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett is expected to be captured and complete six laps around Jupiter, the astronomers say. Earth Unlikely to Gain Extra Moon It's doubtful that our own planet would have the gravitational pulling power to add a temporary satellite to the night sky, Asher said. << Too bad.I wouldn't mind an extra moon... :-)
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POPSFrom a Distant Comet, a Clue to Life Within a few months, the Goddard scientists found glycine embedded in aluminum foil of the collecting apparatus. They had spent the time since then confirming that the glycine indeed came from the comet and not from contamination. “It’s not necessarily particularly surprising,” Dr. Elsila said of her extraterrestrial glycine in a phone conversation Tuesday. “I would have been surprised if it wasn’t there.” Dr. Elsila and her colleagues were able to show that the glycine from the comet had heavier quantities of the isotope carbon 13 than what occurs on Earth. They also detected a second amino acid, beta-alanine, but the quantities were too minuscule to confirm. The findings were presented Sunday at a Washington meeting of the American Chemical Society and will be published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
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POPSNASA scientists want to move the Earth full at source: The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams, involves carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it sweeps close past our planet and transfers some of its gravitational energy to Earth. ‘Earth’s orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,’ Laughlin said. Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn, where the reverse process would occur. It would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated.
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POPSMore Meteors I wish I could include the captions for all of these, but we still have that 1,000 chars. to deal with. Besides, you can get 'em if you want 'em.
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POPSNew Google Doodle to Mark Perseid Meteor Shower The image shows houses silhouetted against the night sky, with meteors streaking through the air, leaving a trail of bright light. Clicking on the link takes web surfers through to a Google results page for searches about the Perseid meteor shower, which will still be visible across the United Kingdom this evening.
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POPSMeteor Shower Tonight The Perseids are bits of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, which has laid down several streams of debris, each in a slightly different location, over the centuries as it orbits the sun. Every August, Earth passes through these debris streams, which spread out over time. "They are typically fast, bright and occasionally leave persistent trains," says Joe Rao, SPACE.com's Skywatching Columnist. "And every once in a while, a Perseid fireball will blaze forth, bright enough to be quite spectacular and more than capable to attract attention even in bright moonlight." Low numbers of Perseids, including some bright fireballs, have already been reported as Earth began entering the stream in late July. Seasoned observers have counted up to 25 per hour already, or nearly one every two minutes. Most meteors are no bigger than a pea. They vaporize as they enter Earth's atmosphere, creating bright streaks across the sky. The Perseids appear to emanate from the constellation Pers
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