wanderingmommy

Anyone else see the "show" last night? I got ds out of bed at 3am and
we headed into Ogden Valley (north of Salt Lake City). We saw well
over 100 meteors in less than half an hour!! Soooooo cool.

I felt sorry for all of the kids who missed it because they had to
get up for school the next day. Such a shame! Homeschoolers get to
see stuff first hand instead of hearing about it the next day in
class. Can you imagine how this excuse would go over at
school? "Please excuse little Billy's absence yesterday. We stayed up
late to watch shooting stars."

Beth

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In a message dated 11/19/2002 12:08:11 PM Central Standard Time,
webbdionfam@... writes:

> Anyone else see the "show" last night? I got ds out of bed at 3am and
> we headed into Ogden Valley (north of Salt Lake City). We saw well
> over 100 meteors in less than half an hour!! Soooooo cool.
>

I had put out an invite for anyone to come out to our place and camp out and
wait. No takers. Just as well, because when I woke up at 1:00 and checked
the sky, it was still cloudy.

We did go camping that night last year and had a good time.

Did you know the trail of the comet we passed through last night was left
there in 1866?

Tuck


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Mary Bianco

>From: "wanderingmommy" <webbdionfam@...>

<<Anyone else see the "show" last night? I got ds out of bed at 3am and
we headed into Ogden Valley (north of Salt Lake City). We saw well
over 100 meteors in less than half an hour!! Soooooo cool.>>


My hubby and I were out at 2:00 a.m. We saw nothing. There were lots of
stars but also lots of clouds at times. My friend went out at 4:00 and
caught a good show. We were just way too tired. It wasn't a total waste. My
honey and I both snuggled in my 29 year old daisy sleeping bag under the
stars and clouds on a 60 something degree night was heaven!

Mary B


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Karin

We saw the show last night!
I set the alarm for 3:15 a.m. and woke up at 3:12 a.m. to turn the alarm
off. <g>
Then dh & I woke up Ben and Jon (who are 11 & 9) and we all went outside.
We spread a blanket down on the grass to lay on and snuggled up under
blankets.
I was worried that we wouldn't get much of a show because of light pollution
(we live in Phoenix, AZ) but we actually saw a lot of action! It was very
cool.
If anyone has ever had a peripheral vision eye test at an eye doctor,
watching for the meteors reminded me of that test!
A great experience that we'll always remember.
I'm also so glad we're free as homeschoolers/unschoolers to do cool things
like this that most school kids probably couldn't do.

Karin




> Anyone else see the "show" last night? I got ds out of bed at 3am and
> we headed into Ogden Valley (north of Salt Lake City). We saw well
> over 100 meteors in less than half an hour!! Soooooo cool.
>
> I felt sorry for all of the kids who missed it because they had to
> get up for school the next day. Such a shame! Homeschoolers get to
> see stuff first hand instead of hearing about it the next day in
> class. Can you imagine how this excuse would go over at
> school? "Please excuse little Billy's absence yesterday. We stayed up
> late to watch shooting stars."
>
> Beth

>

Tia Leschke

> Anyone else see the "show" last night? I got ds out of bed at 3am and
> we headed into Ogden Valley (north of Salt Lake City). We saw well
> over 100 meteors in less than half an hour!! Soooooo cool.

Harumph! The only showers around here last night were the wet kind. It
poured all night. (Dh and ds are out working in it today. I really don't
envy them at all.)
>
> I felt sorry for all of the kids who missed it because they had to
> get up for school the next day. Such a shame! Homeschoolers get to
> see stuff first hand instead of hearing about it the next day in
> class. Can you imagine how this excuse would go over at
> school? "Please excuse little Billy's absence yesterday. We stayed up
> late to watch shooting stars."

I used to just write a note that said, "Please excuse X's absence
yesterday." I didn't figure the reason was any of their business.
Tia

Alan & Brenda Leonard

11/19/02 20:09:

> Homeschoolers get to
> see stuff first hand instead of hearing about it the next day in
> class. Can you imagine how this excuse would go over at
> school? "Please excuse little Billy's absence yesterday. We stayed up
> late to watch shooting stars."

My mom wrote me a few of those growing up! I don't recall that they went
over very well at the school....

brenda

elaine greenwood-hyde

Didn't see a thing :( It was so cloudy here even the moon was invisible. I
am really fed up with this, every interesting astronomical event and it's
flipping cloudy! :( The next big show from the leonids should be 2034, I'll
be 70 then and I bet it'll be cloudy! Grrrr stupid weather :(


Yours grumpily, Elaine


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In a message dated 11/19/2002 6:24:01 PM Central Standard Time,
elainegh8@... writes:

> The next big show from the leonids should be 2034, I'll
> be 70 then and I bet it'll be cloudy! Grrrr stupid weather :(
>

They're here every year, but just not as spectacular as some years. I don't
even consider myself an amateur astronomer, but I like "events" like meteor
showers. So, what I know about the Leonid may be wrong in some way. The
Leonids are a result of the Earth passing through the dust trail of a comet
(something T...-Tuttle, I think). The comet circles the Sun every 30 years,
but the Earth passes through the dust trails every year. So the one we're
passing through this time was left by the comet on its pass by the Sun in
1866.

Last year, I think, was supposed to be the peak for a long time.

I'm reminded about a book by Mary Chapin Carpenter, called "Halley Comes to
Jackson", about a grandmother remembering when she saw Halley's Comet the
first time, and it coming back again in what? 1995 or something? I remember
it. There's also a song and an audiotape attached to the book.

Tuck


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Stephanie Elms

> I'm reminded about a book by Mary Chapin Carpenter, called
> "Halley Comes to
> Jackson", about a grandmother remembering when she saw
> Halley's Comet the
> first time, and it coming back again in what? 1995 or
> something? I remember
> it. There's also a song and an audiotape attached to the book.

Halley's came back last in 1986....the year I graduated high school. Our
whole yearbook had a "comet" theme. Did not care for it much, although I
thought the comet was cool!

Stephanie E.

jwoolfolk

Well if you still lived in Arkansas you would have see them. For once it was clear as a bell. Saw a few at 11:00but the real show was from about 3:30 am 4:45 am. "OMG Julie" your thinking "you actually got up before the sun?!!!!" For once I did and it was worth it.
Julie W in AR
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>

I had put out an invite for anyone to come out to our place and camp out and
wait. No takers. Just as well, because when I woke up at 1:00 and checked
the sky, it was still cloudy.

We did go camping that night last year and had a good time.

Did you know the trail of the comet we passed through last night was left
there in 1866?

Tuck


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In a message dated 11/19/2002 8:32:27 PM Central Standard Time,
stephanie.elms@... writes:

> Halley's came back last in 1986....the year I graduated high school. Our
> whole yearbook had a "comet" theme. Did not care for it much, although I
> thought the comet was cool!
>

Then which one was it that I remember? Hale-Bopp? Maybe that's it. :)

Tuck


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Julie Stauffer

We had such a good time with this. We have friends who are really into
astronomy. They invited about 30 homeschoolers over to camp out in their
back yard. They had a couple of big telescopes set up and had lots of
information from NASA. Kids were free to join in or not (mostly, anyway,
some parents wanted to make sure their kids LEARNED something). We froze to
death trying to get some sleep and then got up at 4:00 for hot chocolate and
french toast. We watched the wonderful meteors with little Marsie snuggled
in a sleeping bag in my lap. Hearing her "oooh" and "aaah" made freezing
definitely worth it.

Julie

Stephanie Elms

> Then which one was it that I remember? Hale-Bopp? Maybe
> that's it. :)

Probably. :o) Hale-Bopp was visible in 1997 (thanks google!)

Stephanie E.