Meteor shower 13-14th !!! Visible around the world !!
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It always makes me wonder, with everything moving around in space, and these things when we see them being only being about 15 miles away, could we ever move into the path of one of these meteor showers?
erm, a meteor shower is where they enter the earths atmosphere and burn up. So to answer your question, we have moved into the paths of these showers, on numerous occasions.
strangely i thought exactly the same thing before i saw your post
We could be kings if evryone else is affected
How can we see a meteor shower if the world ends on Dec 12th....? 
Should be good if I remember to look for it. Unless I am out rabbiting I am bound to miss it
Should be good if I remember to look for it. Unless I am out rabbiting I am bound to miss it
The Mayan calender may be out a day or two.
All good then, i wll die on the beach with a mojito
I will be, possibly only laid out on my roof though. About three weeks ago I just happened to glance up at the sky and saw the brightest meteor I have ever seen, and used to live in the North West of Scotland so I have seen a few.
the end of the world (as you know it) has already started to end.
The Mayan calender may be out a day or two.
More like ended a long time ago, god I hate that Mayan doom's day dross it's almost as bad as that stoned Italian and his fecking quatrains.
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strangely i thought exactly the same thing before i saw your post
We could be kings if evryone else is affected
all depends if they're green ...
Just thinking about the recent (in the scheme of things) Tunguska event in 1908. A meteor airburst estimated to have the power of 185 hiroshima bombs which leveled 2000sq km of forest. They now think the meteor was only 30m to 40m in diameter.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/
We have "meteor season" from late summer to early winter. Quite a few different showers. Perseids, leonids, geminids... at their peak, 100+ per hour, they last a week or more. So on average call it 50 per hour, for a week. Thats 8400 meteors entering our atmosphere, per shower, i've listed 3. Thats on average, 25,200 meteors that enter our atmosphere, between, late summer and early winter.....every year. The Tunguska event was just one space rock and not a very big one really.
If the above event is anything to go by, it happens.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/
We have "meteor season" from late summer to early winter. Quite a few different showers. Perseids, leonids, geminids... at their peak, 100+ per hour, they last a week or more. So on average call it 50 per hour, for a week. Thats 8400 meteors entering our atmosphere, per shower, i've listed 3. Thats on average, 25,200 meteors that enter our atmosphere, between, late summer and early winter.....every year. The Tunguska event was just one space rock and not a very big one really.
If the above event is anything to go by, it happens.
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"...If the above event is anything to go by, it happens.
One "just missed us" earlier today!
http://www.space.com/18854-newfound-asteroid-close-flyby-earth.html
By "just missed" I mean that it came within 140,000 miles (230,000 kilometers) which is obviously not that close, however the interesting point is that we only noticed it three days ago, so not nearly enough time for President Morgan Freeman to build a huge bunker and fill it with useful people and artifacts.
its actually loads more than 25000 a year, its several thousand a day, mostly the size of a grain of rice. Once a week or so there's one the size of a car and every few months we get one about house sized, they almost all burn up in the atmosphere very few chunks make it down to Earth
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