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Re: Upcoming Meteor Shower

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From: natjo
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00
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In article <8mrv6c$rs2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  jupitersci@altavista.net wrote:
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>
>      The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the evening of August 12 and
> the morning of August 13. This year the moon will interfere
> somewhat with observing. For a nice webpage on information
> about this "Old Faithful" of meteor showers, go to
> http://ajanta.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~jupiter/pub/sciinfo/perseid.html
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That's odd. According to :
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/august_radiants.html
it's at 2000 Aug 12th at 02:40 UT (i.e. 2:40 a.m. GMT on the 12th and
21:40 EST on the 11th).

Regards,
Nathan Harris.


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