(meteorobs) Leonid Meteor Storm 2032

[Catlin]

Hi Anne, thanks for the enlightenment, pun intended, which I wholly
subscribe to.

What I was trying to say was there is probably, maybe outside the
universe, unimaginable elements. Not proven/not tested and based on the
belief of total infinity.

Slight switch now, but a connection to comets, meteors and elements
within the universe. Does anyone know the results from the experiment
conducted around 12 months ago, maybe a little longer, when the rocked
launched sent a probe the size of a washing machine to impact and burst
into a comet? All I recall is that masses of material spewed out in a
hugh cloud and I have heard nothing about it since.

Clear skies

Michael 

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Anne van Weerden
Sent: 10 November 2007 21:27
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Leonid Meteor Storm 2032

  > How much of space is grey/black and could there
> be a color(s) that we have not experienced before involving an element
> other than light?  

>Michael
Leeds England>

I am not sure I understand this sentence, but can't resist: whatever you

think of, we would not experience it as a colour, because a colour is 
what we see with our eyes which are sensitive of a few frequencies of 
light. Space is as coloured as Earth is, and the reason we would see 
space rather black and white than coloured is because our eyes evolved 
during sunshine, at least for the main part, our eyes therefore are not 
very sensitive in the dark. Space is overall too far away from suns for 
us to see colours. If you would take a flashlight to a planet you would 
see colours as on Earth.
That is also why pictures can be more coloured than what we see in the 
night, they can 'add up' the incoming photons, we can't, our eyes 
process them immediately. We can see colours in meteors because they can

be just bright enough for our eyes. (This last remark is to be not too 
much off-topic :)

Anne
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