{"id":7637,"date":"2006-11-17T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2006-11-17T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T03:46:00","slug":"is-there-any-end-to-the-egoism-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7637","title":{"rendered":"Is There Any End to the Egoism? [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars fly in for Cruise wedding <\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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The annual Leonid meteor shower <\/a>could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe.<\/p>\n

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.\n<\/p>\n

\nAt the peak, people in these favorable locations could see up to 150 shooting stars per hour, or more than two per minute.\n<\/p>\n

\n“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<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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<\/a>. 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.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIt’s an astronomical phenomenon <\/b>that has NOTHING to do with the TomKat wedding.\n<\/p>\n

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There have also been incidents<\/a> 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<\/i>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nEspecially now that Democrats control Congress.
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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<\/p>\n

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