10 CommentsBwog likes to report the occasional celestial phenomenon, so Stephanie Quan sends along this tip:
“Perseid Meteor Shower TONIGHT
Go outside tonight after midnight. If there isn’t too much air pollution or cloud cover, there will be a spectacular meteor shower in the Northeast (strongest in the pre-dawn hours). If you’re out in open, dark country, you might see up to 60 shooting stars an hour.
The Perseid meteoroids are debris from the Swift-Tuttle Comet, which takes 130 years to circle the sun. Swift-Tuttle is part of a comet kin from the Oort Cloud. Most comets from this cloud don’t make it close to earth, but a few have been pulled into a trajectory closer to the earth, creating beautiful meteor showers several times a year.”
It’s currently rainy and miserable at this Bwogger’s house. Anyone in luck with nice weather?
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@anony The title of this posting sums it up perfectly (“a reminder of your insignificance”). I find astronomy and such soooo depressing, and I thought I was the only one..
@Chinese factories One of the definite, definite disadvantages to being in Shanghai, where on a clear night you can see, oh, maybe 3 stars…
…not to mention the meteor shower was probably during the daytime here…and on the other side of the world…in sum, this comment was pointless
@meteors don’t care what side of the earth the sun is hitting. They’re falling all the time, man.
@yea this is a great meteor shower. used to watch it at scout camp all the time upstate.
@saw it and boy was it amazing. one of the few perks of living in bumblefuck, i suppose – nothing between me and the stars except the occasional wayward farmer.
@Leroy Goddamn NHL. Muthafuck.
@I hope the FroSci tag is a sarcastic allusion to the insignificance of the course.
@not to mention totally irrelevant and misused
@I HATE I hate meteors. Fuck ’em, man. Stars that are as good as fucked. Fuck their crazy tails, fuck their panspermia-carrying payloads. Fuck ’em.
@mmm hella nice near columbia right now.