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(meteorobs) SpaceWeather.com: Eerie Meteors, Glowing Rockets, and Morning Planets
Very late forwarding this fine issue, but "better late than never"... :)
Lew Gramer
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:51:18 -0500
Subject: Eerie Meteors, Glowing Rockets, and Morning Planets
To: SpaceWeather.com <spaceweather@lists.spaceweather.com>
From: SpaceWeather.com <spaceweather@lists.spaceweather.com>
Space Weather News for August 14, 2001
http://www.spaceweather.com
PERSEID METEORS: The 2001 Perseid meteor shower peaked on Sunday, August
12th. In case you missed the show, visit our Perseid meteor gallery,
which includes a unique movie of a Perseid meteor streaking over the
Marshall Space Flight Center. The movie's sound track is the meteor's
eerie-sounding radar echo.
ROCKET DECAY: One of the most dazzling sites of the 2001 Perseid meteor
shower wasn't a Perseid at all. A piece of a Russian rocket fell to Earth
over the Atlantic ocean on August 12th, passing first over Maine and
eastern Canada. The disintegrating rocket shell created a dazzling
fireball. See the pictures on SpaceWeather.com!
MORNING PLANETS: Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon are putting on
another pre-dawn planet show this week. Visit Spaceweather.com for finder
charts and details.
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