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Re: (meteorobs) KUDOS: "You might be an astronomer if..."

Hi Lew!  
    Great list!  To which I may add just one more:
"You might be getting older if..."

...you COULD have been in the Arizona desert on the
morning of Nov. 17, 1966, WITHOUT making yourself
twenty years older...!

Give my regards to David Letterman... Paul in Sicily

--- "Lewis J. Gramer" <dedalus@latrade.com> wrote:
> Re the Web page "You might be an astronomer if...":
>  
>
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/9650/YouMightBeAnAstronomer.html
> 
> I had a few additions, for those with a
> meteor-observing bent!
> 
> If Dale's site is jargony, these are truly jargony
> ^2 - and so
> even more fun... ;> Call these "You might be a
> meteor observer
> if...", if they aren't appropriate for your main
> site, Dale?
> 
> You Might be A (Meteor) Astronomer If...
> 
> ... you've ever called 11 kilometers per second
> "very slow".
> [Minimum meteoroid geocentric velocity in Earth's
> gravity field!]
> 
> ... your first reaction at seeing a fireball streak
> gloriously
> across the sky is to check your watch - or start
> counting.
> 
> ... your idea of a "really good night" is being able
> to lie on a
> lawnchair for 6 straight hours without having to go
> to the bathroom.
> 
> ... your favorite pastime when visiting beautiful
> spots in the
> countryside is measuring your Naked Eye Limiting
> Magnitude.
> 
> ... you actually KNOW how to measure your Naked Eye
> Limiting Magnitude.
> 
> ... you bring a clipboard and red light with you on
> EVERY vacation.
> 
> ... you consider a beat-up cheap old lawnchair a
> "reasonable carry-on"
> for a flight to Hawai'i, Spain or even Australia.
> 
> ... you are envious when someone says they got ANY
> sleep during the
> weeks of August 11, November 17 or December 13.
> 
> ... you know what is special about each of those
> three weeks.
> [Perseids, Leonids, Geminids!]
> 
> ... and you plan your whole YEARLY CALENDAR around
> those three weeks.
> 
> ... you'd be willing to make yourself 20 years older
> just to have been
> in the Arizona desert in the early morning of
> November 17, 1966!
> 
> ... the most important event on August 11, 1999 had
> nothing to do with
> the moon and the Sun.
> 
> -- 
> Lew Gramer
> Medford, MA, USA
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