Less shooting Stars??

It's all light pollution, BEERTbrain!

Saul Levy


On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:07:52 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

When I was a kid I would go atop Powder Horn hill in chelsea Ma. and lay
on my back ain august as wath a great show of shooting stars. That was
over 65 years ago. my thoughts are that either the air is more
poluted,or space dust is less dense in this spacetime??

I'm sad to say it's your eyes that a getting older, and polution might also
be some of the problem if you mean lightpolution

but where i live we can se quite a show every year with up to 100 or more
every hour
if there is no clouds (not polution), thats in november not august, in
august it's only from 5 - 40 every hour

that is excatly the same show as i can remember from my childhood

I don't think you need to go back 65 years in the states to find a
spectacular shooting star show, remember 2001 ?




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When I was a kid I would go atop Powder Horn hill in chelsea Ma. and lay
on my back ain august as wath a great show of shooting stars. That was
over 65 years ago. my thoughts are that either the air is more
poluted,or space dust is less dense in this spacetime??


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Reality is I can't lay on my back,and get up any more by myself. Also
light pollution,and dirt in the air has made the atmosphere less
transparent. Here in Florida even a bright Moon looks milky. There are
no $100,000 telescopes in Florida. We do have fire flies,and that begs
the question. If you are in a forest can you be sure its a shooting
star,or a fire fly in your line of view? The dust density in the solar
system is getting less over time. and that is a "fact" Bert