[ARRL-OK] FW: Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

D C _Mac_ Macdonald k2gkk at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 13 15:56:19 EST 2015


I don't know if weather will cooperate for Oklahoma tonight, 
but here's the info from spaceweather.com
 
 
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Space Weather News for Dec. 13, 2015
http://spaceweather.com                         GEMINID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, Dec. 13-14, as Earth passes through a stream of gravelly debris from "rock comet"  3200 Phaethon. Dark-sky observers in both hemispheres could see as many as 120 meteors per hour during the dark hours between local midnight and sunrise on Dec. 14th. Last night, Dec. 12-13, NASA's all-sky meteor network detected 15 Geminid fireballs over the USA. That number will surely increase tonight when the shower peaks. Visit Spaceweather.com for more information.

MAGNETIC STORM ON A COMET: Earth isn't the only place with geomagnetic storms. Comets can have them, too. Such a storm appears to be underway in the sinuous blue ion tail of Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10).  Observers with backyard telescopes are monitoring the event with photos highlighted on today's edition of Spaceweather.com 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                




	
		
		
		
        
        
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