(meteorobs) Re: 2006 Perseids from Edmonton (Bruce McCurdy)

[Ray Jones]

Bruce,

Thanks for the wonderful descriptions for those of us
too close to the coastal fogs to see much this year.

By the way... I'm a Gemini.  Can you forecast how many
Leonids I'll see this year? <GRIN>

RayJ


> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:55:46 -0600
> From: "Bruce McCurdy" <bmccurdy at telusplanet.net>
> Subject: (meteorobs) 2006 Perseids from Edmonton
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Cc: rascals at lists.rasc.ca
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> "Infinity always gives me vertigo
> and fills me up with grace."
>        -- Bruce Cockburn ("Mystery")
> ***
>
>    Every August the Perseid meteor shower attracts considerable interest
> among the public and in the media. This year I was tapped by the local CBC
> Radio One affiliate to do interview on the subject (as well as about the
> also-annual Mars-big-as-the-full-moon hoax and a promo about northern
> Alberta's soon-to-be-declared Dark Sky Preserve). Everything went well in
> the interview until the very close, when the genial host referred to me as
> "Bruce McCurdy of the Royal Astrological Society of Canada" !!