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(meteorobs) Here I AM!
Hello all,
For what it's worth...... I'm a seventy-one year old man. (Good Lord!) I
became interested in the sky during my service on a destroyer in WW II and even
more so after I married the farmer's daughter in '48 and often drove a tractor
in the fields at night. Talk about seeing....My ship was blacked out, and the
farm fields were dark. I could see all seven of the Seven Sisters back then;
now it looks as if the full moon is going soon to be difficult, as my eyesight
fails!
I bought myself a four+ inch reflector, in the '50s, but soon learned that I
wasn't interested in looking for what couldn't be seen anyway. So I went back
to meteors.
Now for a question: Back in 1942 I was on my back on the bottom of a fishing
boat watching the sky when a meteor went past directly over my head. It left a
streak which was wider than a full moon! It seemed to me that I could hear its,
"Swishsssuuugh!" sound. I have wondered all these years if I really heard it,
or just "filled in" the sound with my imagination. If anyone has any thoughts
on this, I'd like to hear them.
Thanks much,
Grandpa Jack Spencer