Re: (SNES) Yes, it did clear...Geminids

[Timetrav2@webtv.net (Andy and Barry)]

I wasn't sure of the time  peak time for this meteor shower, I think it
was sometime early in the morning. Here in Rhode Island it was raining
and cloudy when I went to bed so I never even thought about sticking my
head out the door to check the sky.

I did wake up at 4:15 am, and by 4:35 am I was outside standing in the
fog, barefooted with a tee-shirt on peering at the morning sky that was
almost cloudless in the South and South West. The Big Dipper was almost
straight overhead (that was a big surprise) and Jupiter was the
brightest object in the sky.  

Between 4:35 and 5:05am I counted 12 Geminids and one sporadic that
seemed to come out of Cancer. It raced  across an almost black sky
before it disappeared just before it reached Jupiter. (maybe it was a
left over from last months Leonids). Only one of these meteors came
close  to being a bright "fireball"  and all of them had very little
color, most likely their light intensity was being block by the clouds
and fog that was still hanging around. The one sporadic was traveling at
an amazing rate of speed, leaving an impression in the morning sky that
looked like a thin white scratch streaking its way westward. It was so
fast it made me wonder if I really saw it at all, and it was by far
traveling faster than any of the Geminids that I observed. 

By 5:05 I could feel every pebble and blade of grass under my bare feet
so I decided to go in and get the last of my morning Z's. This was not
the Leonids of 2001 but it was worth the few minutes of peace under the
stars.

Stars in your eyes,
Barry

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