Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Cool
You probably already missed it this morning but you can still see it again tomorrow.
"This week, Jupiter will have a close encounter with the crescent moon. Dozens of meteors will shoot out of the constellation Orion. And Saturn will shine down over it all.
“The meteors come from Halley’s comet,” says Bill Cooke, a member of the Space Environments Team at the Marshall Space Flight Center. “Every year in October Earth glides through a stream of dusty debris from the comet. The bits of comet dust, most no larger than grains of sand, disintegrate in the atmosphere and become shooting stars.”
“It’s not an intense shower, but it is a pretty one."
So get your lazy behind outta bed and go look at it.
[update] Sweet! Patience pays off! TOTAL. GLEE! Now I can go to sleep.
Space....sigh....G-d I love it.
