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Dec 21, 2008

Solstice Meteor Shower Dec 22, 2008



~Image: drawing Snowy Path, jc 2008~ because many folks are walking snowy paths right now.

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And now I turn you over to the:


Space Weather News for Dec 21, 2008



URSID METEORS: Earth is passing through a stream of debris from comet 8P/Tuttle and this is causing the annual Ursid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the Ursids to peak on Dec 22 with 8 to 10 meteors per hour flying out of the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper) not far from the *North Star.

The display is usually mild, but outbursts of Ursids occasionally surprise observers with rates many times normal. The last time this happened was in 2006. Standing outdoors to watch Ursids in December can be a chilling experience. So why not stay inside and listen?

Spaceweather.com is broadcasting live audio from the Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas. When a meteor passes over the facility--"ping"--there is an echo. Because the Ursid radiant is circumpolar (always up) over the radar, the echoes may be heard at any hour, night or day.

Tune in to SpaceWeather to try the audio feed, which can support 1000 simultaneous listeners.

UNIQUE CHRISTMAS GIFT: For less than the cost of a night at the movies, you can give someone the heavens for Christmas. Send them a gift subscription to Spaceweather PHONE: SpaceWeatherPhone.

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* The North Star is now Polaris; keywords: an emotional or nurturing mission; pathfinder potential.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okay-are you making copies of your Solstice drawing available at a price a low paid government worker could manage? This is the first Solstice that really touched me and your drawing just symbolizes what I am feeling here in California with the rain and my family exploding all around ( oh blessed sun conjoins pluto today and all the craziness and despair and fear and regret we have all been sitting on and in is right there right visable has come rolling out). At any rate I feel so full of the Earth and the parts of life that nurture and nourish and your drawing just summed it up.

Jude Cowell said...

Okay so i will, Clymela, thanks fo asking but am sorry this drawing sums things up for you!

Snow melts mercifully though, doesn't it? It may take a while but it will!!

Off to Lulu now to upload drawing for you... ;p

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