Meteor Shower starting soon (non-liberals can watch too)
 

The Quadrantid meteor shower is due to reach maximum in the predawn hours of Friday, Jan. 4. The Quadrantids are notoriously unpredictable, but if any year promises a fine display, this could be it.

Indeed, this may end up being the best meteor shower of 2008.

According to the International Meteor Organization, maximum activity this year is expected on Friday 1:40 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

For those in the eastern United States, the radiant will be about one-quarter of the way up in the east-northeast sky. The farther to the north and east you go, the higher in the sky the radiant will be. To the south and west the radiant will be lower and the meteors will be fewer.

From Western Europe, the radiant will soar high in the east as the peak arrives just as morning twilight intervenes.

Quadrantid meteors are described as bright and bluish with long silvery trains. Some years produce a mere handful, but for favorably placed observers, this could be a shower to remember; at greatest activity, Quadrantid rates will likely range from 30 to 60 per hour for eastern parts of the U.S. and Canada, to 60 to 120 per hour for Western Europe.

Across central and western parts of North America, the shower's sharp peak will have already passed and meteor activity will be rapidly diminishing by the time the radiant has a chance to get very high in the northeastern sky. Nonetheless, hourly rates of perhaps 15 to 30 may still be seen.

I can't wait. The last big one we had we were all set. It was a beautifully warm night, we went in the pool, it was the weekend so R could stay up late and lo and behold if it didn't cloud up and we saw nada! I hope tonight I get to see some since it's freezing cold out but very clear. :)

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Luckily, I've got global warming cropping up around my home. All meteors will be burned up before they reach my house. Or, they'll freeze into ice cubes and pulverize it.

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A meteor the size of a bus hurdled it's way towards my house one time. Luckily it burned up and was the size of a pebble when I caught it bare handed in my back yard.

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Well at least you could see it.

There are so many clouds over my house due to global warming that I'll never see 'em coming.

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LOL Now you're cracking me up. Good thing, that be. :giggling:

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Belgium is sooooo small, meteors could never hit us !
And, there's no Global Warming here, 'cause there are hardly any Hummers over here, and Hummers do cause all the global warming ! :fdance: :beerchug: :giggling: :dancingbanana:

Frenzy

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I'm starting not to care what you say anymore Filip. I just stare at your avatar.:jump:

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Here,here!

She looks like that chick from "friends" but prettier! Maybe its the no-panties thing though....

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Until you mentioned it, I didn't even know she was blonde.:giggling:

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She is ALOT prettier !!!

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Too cold for Meteor watching! Better for hot todys:beerchug: and watching fairy's with boots:beerchug:

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kind of hard to be sure, but looks more brown.....;)