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(meteorobs) Meteorobs 'Night before Christmas'...
Greetings all....
Merry Christmas from Canada
... and some rhymes for the snowy season! ;>
All the best to you and yours!
- Cathy Hall
Metcalfe, Ontario, Canada
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The Night before Christmas... the meteorobs version!
.... by C.L. Hall
Twas the night before Christmas
and all over the net...
All were out for some Ursids -
you didn't forget???
The heated socks were hung
on the observers with care...
In the hope that more meteors
soon would appear...
Normal people were huddled
all snug in their beds...
While visions of spouses freezing outside
never entered their heads!
And Hally and Gramer
and all of the rest...
Had just settled in
for a nightful of Teff...
When out of the dark
there arose such a flash...
That the rest flew to their windows
to look out and gasp!!
Off in the distance what should appear...
but a red and white fireball!!!
What... expecting reindeer??
Where's Santa? Where's Rudolph?
and Donner and Blitzen?
Comet's at aphelion -
so he's not around visitin'...
Faster than a Leonid this fireball flew
but, wait, <what> velocity??
Asked the IMO crew...
It shattered the windows,
it blew dust off the sill...
And the fireball kept going
just 'over the next hill'...
Over Davis and Youmans
and on to McLeod...
All the east coast watched it...
a real fireball crowd!
But hey, did you hear it?
those electrophonic cries...
Merry Christmas observers!
and keep watching the skies!!!!
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