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

Oops!  I stand corrected!  The regards should go more
to JEFF FOXWORTHY than to David Letterman!  I get
those two mixed up all the time...  Turn it into a top
ten list and then David is the guy!  Regards to all,
Paul in Sicily

--- theodora jones <trjones_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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