13/12/2010 - Meteorite Shower tonight! Who's going?

[miaowwoof 10]

Anyone seen anything yet?

 

I will take that as a no then!

 

On my back garden i can normally see stars clearly! But tonight i cant see ANY!! oh well, ive stayed up long enough! Night.

[hard2miss 10]

Sod all

[taylor1986 10]

Nope, I set my alarm to see this but nothing

[netheredge 10]

That wasn't a shooting star I'm afraid to tell you! It was apart of this meteor shower but it was MUCH bigger and it broke up as it came into the earth's atmosphere, there's a thread on here and also it was on the news as lots of people had seen it. I sadly missed that!

I never said it was a shooting star. I was saying

 

I saw the beginning of the geminid shower (this was Friday)

[martss 10]

Originally Posted by Zeeney

That wasn't a shooting star I'm afraid to tell you! It was apart of this meteor shower but it was MUCH bigger and it broke up as it came into the earth's atmosphere, there's a thread on here and also it was on the news as lots of people had seen it. I sadly missed that!

 

What was it then?

[Jakester 10]

Typically an overcast , miserable night. Kept checking but the cloud cover was dense throughout the night. What a disappointment!!

 

Apparently Mam Tor in Derbyshire is listed as one of the best six sites in the UK to view these phenomenon's. Lack of city glare apparently.

 

Don't know whether to check tonight or maybe it's all moved on?

[bumpyroads 10]

May still be worth a look tonight although the forecast is for more cloud.

 

The trick to spotting meteors is to get somewhere with a good view of the sky, wrap up warm, lie down and be patient!

 

Some more background info here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/06dec_geminids/

[jzstumpy 10]

So there's a chance we could see them tonight as well?

[hard2miss 10]

So there's a chance we could see them tonight as well?

 

More so if the Metro is anything to go by, 100 - 150 per hr they reckon.

 

Saying that just look at the cloud !

[Halibut 12]

That wasn't a shooting star I'm afraid to tell you! It was apart of this meteor shower but it was MUCH bigger and it broke up as it came into the earth's atmosphere, there's a thread on here and also it was on the news as lots of people had seen it. I sadly missed that!

 

I never said it was a shooting star. I was saying

 

I saw the beginning of the geminid shower (this was Friday)

 

'Shooting star' is quite simply a layman's term for a meteorite.

[Zeeney 10]

'Shooting star' is quite simply a layman's term for a meteorite.

 

I know that's why I used it The newspapers and everywhere else are saying it was a fire ball, not a meteorite.

[Benella 10]

Up?

 

 

I'm sorry, and yes I know it was a childish answer.

 

Brill. Creased me up.