Stars fly in for Cruise wedding
The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe.
A brief surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 18. In Europe, that corresponds to early Sunday morning, Nov. 19 at 4:45 GMT. The outburst could last up to two hours.
At the peak, people in these favorable locations could see up to 150 shooting stars per hour, or more than two per minute.
“We expect an outburst of more than 100 Leonids per hour,” said Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. Cooke notes that the shooting stars during this peak period are likely to be faint, however, created by very small meteoroid grains
Most of the shooting stars in the annual Leonid meteor shower are the result of tiny bits of material, the size of sand grains or peas, blown off a comet and wafting through space for centuries. The Leonids are spawned by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years, it rounds the Sun and then goes back to the outer solar system. On each passage across Earth’s orbit, Tempel-Tuttle lays down another trail of debris, each in a slightly different location than previous trails. Over time, the debris trails spread out. Each year, Earth passes through different streams, and different parts of the streams, creating bursts of activity and slack periods in the nights surrounding the event’s peak.
It’s an astronomical phenomenon that has NOTHING to do with the TomKat wedding.
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There have also been incidents of buildings being struck and animals being killed. In 1860, in Ohio, a horse reportedly died after being struck by a meteor. In 1911 a dog was killed in Egypt. But compared with the number of horses, dogs and housewives killed or struck by myriad other objects and collisions over that time, being clobbered by a meteor is an extremely remote possibility.
Especially now that Democrats control Congress.
Thetans I tell you. Those are theatans. Don’t let someone pull the wool over your eyes, do it yourself!
My one regret is the ban on all intoxicating substances. How can you have fun at a wedding without alcohol? That and well, couldn’t we find a better Scientology front guy than that lunatic Tom Cruise? I wanted Brad Pitt or George Clooney. I wonder if Clooney will be at the wedding. . . hmmmmm.
Just a small question…what is the point of getting married after the baby?
I know, I know, I’m hopelessly old fashioned, judgemental, intolerant, blah, blah, blah.
It’s just I don’t think marrage means what they think it means.
…being clobbered by a meteor is an extremely remote possibility.
You might even call the odds against it astronomical.
But I certainly never would.
He’ll be here all week, folks. Try the liver.
I will see my fellow Scientologists in hell at sometime following the TomKateKitten ring ceremony!
Movie stars, Tom Cruise, and Leonids.
A more ironic blend of egoism and egotism might not be possible.
I’m looking forward to VHF backscatter…
Let me tell you about my new product, just out on the market: Theta Blockers!
It’s “Try the veal”, cranky. Or “Save the liver!” maybe. If you’re feeling Aykroydish.
SB: french46
Normally it’s “try the veal,” but I dared to be different.