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(meteorobs) Desperately going for it: Poland here we come!!!!!




Dear everybody,

 YES!

We have become so desperate due to the weather that we are starting up the
ULTIMATE 'crash' at this moment. NOAA weather photo's suggest a Titanic
clashing in the east. The monstruous low pressure system and it's fronts
encountered an even more monstruous high pressure area above scandinavia and
russia. The front is heavy but doesn't move an inch, at least in easterly
direction it seems when comparing two satellite images taken 24 hrs ago and
2 hrs ago.

SO WE ARE GOING FOR IT!!!!

At this moment we are packing our cars. Northeast Germany or Poland are the
target. Just a 600 mile drive.... We'll take a stop at Gronau to inform with
Jacob Kuiper at the Dutch meteorological Institute abaout latest
developments. Then we'll decide to continue untill we die, or to quit if
prosp[ects for front movement have become worse. Staying in The Netherlands
anyway will not get us to see any Perseids these days, that's for sure.

All systems go. We have GPS, fast cars, lots of camera-equipment,
image-intensified video, power supplies and a lot of very fanatic observers,
including me, Casper, Robert Haas, Koen Miskotte, Carl Johannink, and
surprise surprise, even Betlem and his people are considering to go for it!
(which in their case means that they must be very desperate).

Stay tuned! Hear our stories when we have come back. The ultimate succes, or
an exhausting but fatal effort into a fizzling campaign. Who knows? No
return for us: 

ALEA JACTA EST!

This will be even more important than the fate of the Roman Empire!! History
will be made!

-Marco Langbroek (DMS)
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