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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVery cool - meteors
Interactive, animated display of meteors travelling through the solar system.
http://www.ianww.com/meteor-showers/
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Very cool - meteors (Original Post)
canetoad
Mar 2017
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FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)1. Thanks for this link
This is very cool.
You can isolate each meteor shower separately, each on its own rotational path.
Or you can select the bottom option "Everything at once" and see all the meteor showers combined.
I think my 10-year-old grandson would really like this.
demotux
(76 posts)2. They are ...
... more popular than politicians, y'know ...
Cha
(297,317 posts)3. Hmmm.. Perseids peaks in Mid-August.. Mahalo, canetoad
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)4. Totally cool.
Thank you.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Wow!
A lot of other cool stuff on that guy's site, too!
canetoad
(17,169 posts)6. Hell, I hadn't noticed the other stuff
This one:
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Could be of use in detecting fake news.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)8. I've barely got past the space stuff.
Good find--- Thanks again!
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)7. Very neat.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)9. The Meteors...
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HAB911
(8,904 posts)10. OMG We're DOOMED!
I hear what killed the dinosaurs was they had do space program