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Re: (meteorobs) Aug 8/9 Meteor Results
At 19:29 10-08-96 GMT, you wrote:
>Hi Guys
>
>If the weather is a wipe-out in Europe, and a bit iffy in the US, you are
>all welcome to come round to my place here in the south of Africa. Weather
>prospects look like being 100% clear, and glad to say our snow is a thing of
>the past. We won't see 200/hour, but the show is worth a look just out of
>interest. Air-fares for your account. Any takers?
>
>Sorry to rub salt in your wounds.
>
>Tim
>
Thank you Tim! We are touched by you feeling with us in our desperaty. But,
are we mistaking, or is the Perseid radiant barely visible from your latitudes?
Things have become even worse here. At least three fronts are lingering
around at our vicinity. With vicinity defined as having a cross section of
about 2000 miles. Fronts occupy Europe from Iceland (latitude 67 degrees N)
to southern Spain (latitude 37 degrees north) at this moment! The three main
fronts meet approximately above the British Channel-Netherlands-Germany
area. Indeed, Europe will suffer a total wipe out. No need to rub salt into
our wounds: we're dead already....
Marco Langbroek
Casper ter Kuile
Dutch Meteor Society, depressive center
PS: At this moment, we are mentally about in the same stage as those 100 nm
large little critters (Martian stink bugs...) in ALH 84001...
PS2: serious: keep an eye open if possible near 5h UT, august 12!!!!
PS3: good luck to all our colleagues who have more luck than we do at
present. And this is sincerely. We don't want you to experience what we are
experiencing at this moment. This is hell in Europe. We just regret that we
were not born on the Canary Islands. Or that we had taken another hobby as a
little child, like playing chess or singing in a church choir.
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